Installation art
“Assault on Orlando”
US citizen and homegrown terrorist Omar Mateen legally purchased a Sig Sauer assault rifle on June 4, 2016, at a Florida gun shop. The next day he bought a Glock 17 and 4 days later magazines and ammunition, all at the same gun shop. Early Sunday, June 12, Mateen relentlessly fired round after round at the Pulse Nightclub, killing 49 innocents. In September of 2004 congress allowed a 10-year federal ban on assault weapons to expire.
“Assault on Orlando” BEST of SHOW National Association of Women’ Artists’ ‘Beyond the Frame’ online exhibit July 1 - September 30, 2021 Awards Reception Thursday July 22 from 5 - 6:30 pm
Art Center Sarasota “Viewpoints” Sarasota, FL 2015
Museum of Modern Art “Waging Peace” Tallahassee, FL 2018
ArtRage Gallery “Deadlocked and Loaded: Disarming America” Syracuse, New York 2021
Ceiling and floor installation
49 artist-dyed silk origami birds represent 49 victims and hang from ceiling 10 to 20 feet high
Pride flag is 91 x 54” and has photos of all 49 victims, scattered gun casing shells, and a 85” AR-15 made from black lace, leather, sequins, beads, and other embellishments.
“Very Fine People”
"White supremacy is a real and insidious threat to our democracy; it is organized, determined, violent, and above all racist. Whether intentional or not, Donald J Trump sends cues to inspire and validate terrorists.”
Reece Museum “FL3TCH3R Exhibi” Johnson city, TN 2020
wall installation
2 fleece and silk stitched photos, 2 tiki torches extend 3- 9" from wall, silk flames.
“Forgiving-ness”
A white supremacist, after being openly welcomed to a Bible study at Mother Emanuel church in Charleston, SC, killed 9 innocents. The relatives of those slain inside the historic African American church spoke directly to the accused gunman at his first court appearance. They did not turn to anger. Instead, they offered him forgiveness. I ponder their collective spirit of Forgiving-ness in wonder.
National Associataion of Women Artists NAWA , NYC “The Reslience of Grief” 2021
Alliance for the Arts Main Gallery “Paint, Process and Promise" Ft Myers, FL 2020
Wall installation
silk rusted with automotive brake discs, thread painted with rayon threads and yarns. Hangs from double clear acrylic rods with 9 silk origami birds representing 9 victims. Names of victims are free motion stitched in upper left corner of piece.
“mission accomplished”
“In May of 2003, two months after the US invasion of Iraq, President Bush said in his speech from an aircraft carrier “In the Battle or Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed”. This became known as his “Mission Accomplished” speech because of the large banner behind his podium. Speculation of the real reasons the US went to war are numerous and complex, but the outcomes are indisputable.”
Wall installation
“Abu Ghraib” 18 x 20 x 7
Text printed on background silk Three Muslim men stroll beneath larger-than-life billboards displaying photographs of torture committed by US military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison. Photos of Abu Ghraib were widely circulated throughout the Middle East; many radicalized terrorists claim these photos were their inspiration to toxic jihad.”
“ISIS” 18 x 20 x 7 silk, toy guns
Text printed on background silk
“The terrorist army began as “al Qaeda in Iraq” in 2004 and two years later rebranded itself as ISIS; it is devoted to establishing an independent Caliphate and inspires terror around the globe.”
“Military Casualties” 18 x 20 x 7 silk, toy guns
Text printed on background silk
United States military deaths in Iraq since the President Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech number 4,351. Physical and emotional wounds are deep and incalculable.
“Refugees” 18 x 20 x 7 silk, toy guns
Text printed on background silk
There have been more than half a million war related Iraqi deaths, nearly 200,000 of them civilians. By 2014 there were more than 60 million refugees worldwide, many of them from Iraq; this number has far surpassed the number of World WW II refugees.
“ISIS Atrocities” 18 x 20 x 7 silk, toy guns
Text printed on background silk
Horrifying and unbelievable atrocities have been committed by ISIS publically for the purpose of control, indoctrination, and domination.
“Homegrown Terror” 18 x 20 x 7 silk, toy guns
Text printed on background silk
Early Sunday morning, June 12, Omar Mateen relentlessly fired round after round at the Pulse Nightclub, killing 49 innocents with a legally purchased assault rifle. Mateen used his cell phone to call 911 during the horror and stated he was doing this to “protest the US bombing in Syria and Iraq of women and children”.
“Qonspiracy”
“QAnon, a compendium of recent United States conspiracy theories, has now gone mainstream thanks to supporters who flaunt the Q-brand at Trump rallies amidst a sea of Make America Great Again (MAGA) hats. QAnon conspiracies are multi-faceted but all members envision President Trump in an Epic, Heroic, Q-Battle against the “Deep State” which is Q-code for Obama and his conniving (and godless) loyalists. President Trump’s rhetoric has fueled the Q-Beast by implicitly and sometimes explicitly participating in the hype. QAnon’s lexicon imparts a mystical quality to the number 17; this piece incorporates 17 heads with 17 MAGA hats, heads in Qonspiratorial Qonversation.”
As President Trump tells us…do not believe what you see or read. His attorney, former Mayor Giuliani, tells us “Truth is not Truth.”
But as the well-regarded fact checking website Snopes tells us:
“The TRUTH...whatever it is...is Out There.”
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