in a society
that expects the smooth language of technical expertise,
in a culture that perpetrates the numbing indifference of consumption,
in a country that demands the denial of complicity,
in order to hide a policy of violence,
I am compelled to respond.
|
Soft
Target |
Collateral
Damage |
Acceptable
Cost |
Smart
Sanctions |
Anti-Personnal
Device |
Humanitarian
Intervention |
the language
of the American Ideal: democracy, liberty, justice;
the prominent visual ideals in American propaganda that are specifically
female:
The Statue of Liberty. The Scales of Justice.
What if the visual ideals of violence and war were female as well?
The
bomber of Iraq, Kosovo, and Sudan is female.
The militant patriot upholding the Constitutional right to bear arms
is female.
The child mimicking wildwest individualism is female.
What if the enemy is female?
What if the enemy is a mother?
What if the enemy is a poor woman? An indigenous woman?
What if the enemy is a woman living in an absolute patriarchal society?
can I raise
issues of complicity? Indifference? Denial? Resignation?
Art can ponder these questions.
My paintings are billboards you will never see.
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