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Words are powerful. / Much more powerful than a gun could ever be.
If you’re constantly exposed to it, I fail to see how it can’t affect you. / I just whipped this up tonight after being inspired again to create by Scott Robinson.
Me, my wig and my chair and too many restless thoughts
She will find it. Please read GHOST OF A WOMAN by Caroline Evans Help stop violence against women and children. WHAT DOES THIS WORK MEAN? ART BLOG HERE FEATURED on RB Home Page 25 November 2008 /
The Scream is basically a piece about violence against women, a subject that really sensitizes me not only for being a woman, but also for being human and for dreaming and working for a better world based on respect and equality. I didn’t want a piece that was oppressing or showed only the pain of the violence or abuse. I wanted something dynamic, that could have a “voice”, that could help people to reflect about how to change things. The symbolism of the piece is quite simple and direct. There’s a dual figure in the center. She might be the same woman in two different attitudes, if you like. The red-haired one is scared and in pain. She holds her bleeding heart and wears a mask to keep herself hidden from judgment or other losses. She might be the one who was raped in a party after drinking too much, the one who was abused for a family member but preferred to hide in order to do not cause disturbances in the family, the one who was beaten for her husband but kept silent for fear of losing her children. She might be one of the Congo women. She might be me, or you. The black-haired woman doesn’t wear a mask. She is screaming – although sometimes I think that she is in fact singing. What she releases from within herself is a bird, red as life. Is the desire for freedom from a world conquered by force, not love. She screams her right to be treated as a human being instead of a second-class citizen, as a partner instead of a subordinate. Her right to express her own ideas and have their own attitudes without being demonized for them. There are also masks at the bottom, a pile of masks without faces behind them. They once belonged to women who decided to scream instead of keep silent and anonymous. That decided to stop pretending that that’s how the world is and there’s nothing that can be done to change it. But there’s so much one can do just by having a voice… And use it to demand respect for being human is urgent.
Starring the not so angry Helen and Jo
FRUITION OF THE SEEDS OF VIOLENCE / OIL / $1400 US (ORIGINAL 14” X 18”) / SIGNED DEDICATED PRINTS AVAILABLE The Creator Breath has spoken to me in deep repose and has whispered in my ear that my thoughts are like seeds. Which thoughts I water will bear fruit. And what fruit I bear will either be sweet or sour, good or bad depending on which tree I water. When I was young I met an old Indian man whose wisdom was as deep as the ocean. I asked him how to travel the right road? How to know what to do? And how to be a good man? The wise elder said, ” I have two dogs who live inside of me. One who is good and one who is bad. These two dogs constantly fight with each other. Each trying to win my thoughts, my heart and my soul”. I was astonished by his simple words and then I asked him the all important question, “Which one wins?” He paused and thought for a moment and then said, “The dog I feed.” visionary imagist “Joey”
Child’s Play – Think Again / The AK-47 Russian automatic rifle designed in 1947, is amongst the most smuggled weapons of recent times, finding its way to conflicts in the Balkans, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. / In countries like Rwanda, Mozambique, Congo and Ethiopia this weapon was used by up to 100,000 children in armed conflict in 2005. Today it is estimated that there are between 200,000-300,000 children serving as soldiers for rebel groups and government forces in current armed conflicts. / Source – Human Rights Watch Child’s Play 2 /
This is a tribute to the song “Bittersweet Symphony” by the Verve. I do not take credit for the words.
I managed to put together a home made lightbox, and this is the first proper result I’ve had with it (it’s a composition, of course).
Say hello to my little friend
A stencil I did a while back of Tadanobu Asano as Kakihara in Takashi Miike’s ‘Ichi the Killer’. Thought I would play around with a photo of it in photoshop a bit to create a new design. Wanted to keep it looking gritty and stencil like and here is the finished result.
Generation Death – The youth of today! / . / Guess its maybe got to do with all that violence that we are fed through our television sets.
This is a collaboration between myself and the very sexy, very beautiful… / Rhana Griffin Rhana asked me if I would make her a heart based on her poem…. / Living Dead Girl Come hold me here / now in the dark. / Warm this corpse / that is my living heart. For though it beats / it cannot feel / slashed with word wounds / too deep to heal. I’ve tried so hard / to seal them shut / but the blood it still seeps / through these stitches of catgut. Please don’t turn away / from the ugliness you see, / look past the torn flesh / into the real me. I hear funeral bells tolling / they think its too late / to save this poor wretch / from its terrible fate. Quickly! Make haste now! / let your love be the start, / to the resurrection of my / corpse of a heart. / . / . / ....much love xxx ooh and a credit..to Falln / for the angel wings. / A Helen and Photoshop CS2 Creation.
And you thought your vote counted / Your choice: Poverty, Corruption or Death
Deadly Design mk.II / Deadly Design mk.III / BlackEel Designs / Deadly Design /
For the latest 24hour t-shirt challenge. The currents rage deep inside us / This is the age of video violence / Up in the morning, drinking his coffee / Turns on the TV to some slasher movie / Cartoon-like women, tied up and sweaty / Panting and screaming / Thank you, have a nice day. Lou Reed, Pass Thru Fire / The Collected Lyrics / 1996
This is the first piece in my HSC major works. The series in total is called “Ascendancy” which means domination or influincing figure, but also has connotations to the ascention of Mary in Christianity. Basically what i tried to do was to show how humanity’s expression of faith has changed, evolved, or even stayed the same. “The Betrayal” is basically a contemporary version of the betrayel of Jesus my Judas. Compressed Charcoal on Paper / size: 110×59 cms I would like to thank the wonderful photographer who allowed me to use his brilliant photographs as references throughout the series: mehmet turgut . His page on DeviantART is (http://mehmeturgut.deviantart.com/) and the link to the particular photo for this piece is (http://mehmeturgut.deviantart.com/art/gravity-part-2f-26831677)
“She looks like the Sunday comics / She thinks she’s Brenda Starr / Her nose job is real atomic / All she needs is an old knife scar / Yeah, she’s so dull, come on rip her to shreds…” (“Rip Her to Shreds” – Blondie)
Uploaded for possible collaboration with Danny Nolan’s poem. See it here MurderPalette
The times, they are revolving. This shirt won the first t-shirt revolution challenge. Witness the bannery evidence below: /
the design is no completely my own I must admit. I found an image online (not sure who to credit but if anyone knows?) and modified it for a stencil I made. This is the cleaned up version of that stencil.
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