PROTEST MESSAGES
My current protest art aims to wield the heaviest hammer against the Israel fueled and US funded holocaust while acknowledging America’s own diabolical history. The attempted erasure of the Palestinian people, beginning in 1948, continues in broad daylight in hyper-demonic forms. My protest art shines light on the perpetrators. The attempt to place these messages in the crosshairs of jewish bigotry is an attempt to deflect away from the massacring of Palestinians by the Zionist, so-called Jewish State of Israel. Making a mockery of the UN since 1948, Israel has become the swastika of our time against the Palestinians.
Artists can choose to create art as a spark for critical conversations, to alert and engage others in the fight against oppression, occupation, apartheid and genocide. “Acting as guardians of artistic freedom and independent thought”, acting as guardians of humanity in the pursuit of justice. We all have the duty to disrupt daily life, seize every moment, create every opportunity, to speak out against the most horrific injustice of our time. Only a supremacist would deny a people of this right; only evil would guard and permit that denial. We see the US spending of our tax dollars for weapons to Israel, while many Americans suffer economically. The awareness of the factors and facilitators involved in oppression and genocide brings awareness to the suffering of Americans. As the powers that support and fund a genocide of the Palestinians have no qualms with disregarding it’s own people.
The whole world conspired against Gaza. The whole world is at stake because of it.
Artists and Organizations Rally Against Censorship in Open Letter
Art can force us to grapple with different perspectives, for hearing what we might rather ignore or prefer to hide, and for facing what makes us uncomfortable. Cultural organizations must make these encounters possible. They are key to the functioning of a democracy, as they promote freedom of expression, encourage critical thinking, and create vital opportunities for public discussion and dissent. (Paraphrased)
“To perform this role and serve the public with responsibility and integrity, cultural institutions must maintain autonomy over programming choices, curatorial decisions, and artistic content. They need the freedom to showcase visionary work that inspires, is unexpected, challenges dominant narratives, and questions those in power. Exercising programmatic autonomy is essential to preserving institutional purpose and resilience in the face of ideological pressure. If institutions don’t live up to this mandate, they risk becoming instruments of propaganda and subject to the whims of those temporarily in power.”
“In offering access to a broad range of artistic and cultural expression, arts and cultural institutions invite us to empathize with the experience of others and ask questions we might not consider otherwise. This brings nuance into polarizing conversations and supports a core value defining an open and free society: the capacity to hold differences.”
“We will remain true to our democratic responsibility to act as guardians of artistic freedom and independent thought.”