Sky Pilot

@kairospix: Thank you.

@Amir: Ok, I'll give you my interpretation. The first clue is context. This photo was taken in Austin, the most liberal of all cities in Texas, so the graffiti here doesn't tend to be right-wing, though really, how much of it is, anywhere? This style of image, sprayed through a mask or template, is used for other non-political graffiti as well. To me, the image is ironic because it is a matter-of-fact presentation of something that isn't matter-of-fact. In other words, this is Dubya playing dress up. He's wearing a flight helmet but has on a suit and tie, which highlights the fact that the flight helmet is a prop, part of a costume, and not a real accoutrement. The image is about playing dress-up, or "pretend," and literally everything about Dubya is pretend. For instance, he pretends to be from Texas when he is really a Connecticut blue-blood, but specifically in this image, he pretends to be a warrior when he is really nothing but a well-connected draft-dodger, a pampered child of privilege who is the titular leader of both an ideological movement and an administration composed almost entirely of other privileged draft-dodgers, and their media sycophants.

@Shar: Thank you. I admit to two manipulations. One, I cropped it just a little. Two, I fixed the perspective.

@Richard_Irwin: Thank you.

@Rabbit: Thank you.