↓”Official Target vs. Erlösung”, (440 x 375 mm, apx and respectively), mixed media on cardboard
I am a pacifistic, anti-violence revolutionary, more-feminist-than-my-mother peace-lover first. Next I am a scientist, explorer, fighter, curiouser-than-your-cat mega-nerd. So I went to Springfield, MO and shot a police issue Glock 22, 9 mm, pistol, and much to my surprise I was actually able to do it -pull a trigger. The target wasn’t anthropomorphic, so that helped. It was by far the most violent thing I have ever experienced: the sheer force and brutal sound coming from my hand left me trembling with adrenalin. Back home the target and the experience went in to this piece; my way of making peace with it. Later I happened to be in Berlin, Germany, on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and cut the word “Erlösung” (“Redemption/Salvation”. It’s a wordplay on “Endlösung”, “The Final Solution”) from a newspaper and incorporated it in the diptych. Adding and/or blocking out with intersecting diagrammatic graphics of reproductive organs of flowers and spiritual islamic geometric patterns is probably just a feeble-minded attempt to come to peace with all this violence.
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↓”Stigma vs. Myopia”, (390 x 570 mm, apx and respectively), mixed media on cardboard
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↓”Stunted vs. Pacific”, (360 x 360 mm, apx and respectively), mixed media on cardboard
↓ Work in progress: “Anther Penis Thing”, (595 x 460 mm) mixed media
↓ Work in progress, (480 x 460 mm, apx and respectively), mixed media on cardboard
↓ Work in progress, (480 x 460 mm, apx and respectively), mixed media on cardboard