The kind of chaos resulting from a temporary lack of controlling authority among a group of aspiring dominators fighting to emerge victorious according to their culture of competitive exploitation.
Ink and acrylic on paper, 15 x 22.5 inches, 2016
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To establish the kind of peace that results from the elimination of the means to effectively disagree, where one group so thoroughly dominates all others into a condition of lifeless acquiescence, that the possibility for rebellion becomes unthinkable.
Acrylic on canvas, 31 x 40 inches, 2015
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They became dissatisfied with symbolic gestures, no longer wanting to defer power to political representatives, but to intervene directly according to their own desires: to fight the forces of domination without becoming dominators themselves.
Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 30 inches, 2015
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And the lasting melancholy for the viewer when those well-developed critiques, intended to promote a change by revealing the truth about power, don't then lead to anything else. (Hardt)
Ink and acrylic on paper, 20 x 14.75 inches, 2016
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And committing to redistribute wealth equitably and to fight on behalf of the weak, but tending instead towards greater abuses, seizing more power, and silencing anyone posing a threat.
Acrylic on wood, 12 x 12 inches, 2016
To break free from the corrupting corporate influence, and advance unrestrained according to political ambitions alone.
Acrylic on canvas, 25 x 30 inches, 2015
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For your dependable obedience and loyal performance of duty, without which our belligerent authority could not exist.
Ink and acrylic on paper, 17.75 x 22 inches, 2016
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Because we are the champions.
Acrylic on wood, 16 x 20 inches, 2014
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Eager to differentiate friend from foe, an unrelenting search for reciprocated hostility.
Acrylic on canvas, 38 x 53 inches, 2014
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And with liberty for severed limbs and autonomy for the dead. And for your unintentional sacrifice, a new reality for your descendents, shaped according to our own desires, birthed from the brutality we have employed.
Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches, 2014
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A champion of peace and a conciliator; a man who took his predecessor's program of unpopular intercontinental aggression and made it popular with nearly everyone. A previously unthinkable victory for diversity, this new multicultural face of global militarism.
Acrylic on canvas, 17 x 25 inches, 2014
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