2024
Untitled ("Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim." -Elie Wiesel)
Wood (ash) and acrylic paint .. oiled & waxed.
12" x 1.25" x 8.5"
2024
"Take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim." -Elie Wiesel / Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 12/11/1986.
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“The work of art always meets its viewer in the context of a specific social and historical moment in which the aesthetic, the ethical and the political are never quite separable.”
—Janet Wolff, The Aesthetics of Uncertainty, (Columbia U P, 2008), 141.
“The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“Because everything one makes is a call and response to the world.”
—Edmund de Waal
I sense a PATTERN developing.