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| Pote - Field Slave |
It's hard to imagine this out-of-condition man of advanced years as desirable, agricultural resource, he's the complete antithesis of the hunky, young, muscle studs put up for sale in Amalaric's enslavement scenarios, although it has to be admitted that he has weight and probably strength to match in his favour and you get a good sense from the artist that he's using it here. Not so much a prancing stallion, as a steady dray horse.
Pote's depiction of the ploughman and his primitive cultivation tool is equally unromantic but rather convincing. However you get the impression he's holding the plough back rather than helping to push or guiding it. The faintest glimmer of a smile suggests that it's not a straight farrow that is uppermost in his mind. With whips in evidence and slaves working in bare feet on stony soil you sense this is not a very enlightened workplace.
Is this the fate of a wayward 'Daddy'?
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I have featured Pote here before in 2012 in the mitchmen A-Z of Fetish Artists series under his former name of Patrao. He has refined his somewhat spidery style and muted colourings since them into an impressive story-telling, almost documentary, technique that serves the fetish subject matter well. You can find more at his bdsm male drawings blog, but be warned, much of his work and the accompanying narratives are much more edgy than this example.
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For other examples of Field Slaves click on the 'farm worker' label below