capital G

capital G

Bush and Cheney.

12×16” Pen and ink, charcoal and eggshells on canvas board. In this piece, Cheney is partly made of eggshells which I used to show his frailty in mind and in body. Our administration does so much damage in the name of God and country. The populace in the lower portion is disfigured, without hope and without justice in this world.

Inspired by NIN/Year Zero, specifically the track Capital G. The lyrics to this amazing song are as follows:

I pushed a button and elected him to office and a
He pushed a button and it dropped a bomb
You pushed a button and could watch it on the television
Those motherfuckers didn’t last too long ha ha
I’m sick of hearing ‘bout the haves and the have nots
Have some personal accountability
The biggest problem with the way that we’ve been doing things is
The more we let you have the less that I’ll be keeping for me

Well I used to stand for something
Now I’m on my hands and knees
Traded in my God for this one
He signs his name with a Capital G

Don’t give a shit about the temperature in Guatemala
Don’t really see what all the fuss is about
Ain’t gonna worry bout no future generations and a
I’m sure somebody’s gonna figure it out
Don’t try to tell me how some power can corrupt a person
You haven’t had enough to know what it’s like
You’re only angry ‘cause you wish you were in my position
Now nod your head because you know that I’m right—all right!

Well I used to stand for something
But forgot what that could be
There’s a lot of me inside you
Maybe you’re afraid to see

Well I used to stand for something
Now I’m on my hands and knees
Traded in my God for this one
He signs his name with a Capital G

Text is from a sermon by Jonathan Edwards entitled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God (1741).

Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider’s web would have to stop a falling rock. Were it not for the sovereign pleasure of God, the earth would not bear you one moment; for you are a burden to it; the creation groans with you… There are the black clouds of God’s wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of the dreadful storm, and big with thunder; and were it not for the restraining hand of God, it would immediately burst forth upon you… there is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, that holds the waters back, that are unwilling to be stopped, and press hard to go forward. If God should only withdraw his hand from the flood-gate, it would immediately fly open, and the fiery floods of the fierceness and wrath of God, would rush forth with inconceivable fury, and would come upon you with omnipotent power…The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood…

capital G belongs to the following groups:

1 on 1: The Fine Art of Portraiture, Complex Simplicity of Art, All Things Poetic, Prose, Philosophical., ART ACTION UNION - CREATIVE ACTIVISM, Back In Black, DaDa Land, End Times, FAN FRENZY, Inspired Art, Mixed Media, Musical Art, The Eyes Have It, The Two Of Us and Underground USA