Hell Inverted
Pigment print mounted on aluminum
11”x14”
2025
This AP was donated to fundraiser for HEAL Palestine. @heal.palestine
The original source image is a painting of Dante’s Inferno as seen on Wikipedia “The Map of Hell”painting by Sandro Botticelli. Which reminds me of a strip mine. I do not believe the opposite of hell is quite heaven. I do believe heaven and hell, to the extent that they exist, are experienced on earth in the bodies of real people.
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Will be mounting and posting more prints soon
I make a lot more than I share.
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Starting to celebrate my failures as an artist because I have always put a lot of unpaid labor into these proposals and it’s part of the process. Having a political point of view is not always welcome. Dignity is not a zero sum game.
This was for an exhibit of artist designed flags
@sprucestreetharborpark
#3+3=6 #artisforhumans #proofoflife
Peeling
Preserved and unpreserved mandarin orange peels, found postcard stand
On view at Atelier Art Gallery
I will be gallery sitting for “Condition Report” tomorrow Friday July 19. Come though to say hi and see all the great works by the staff of Atelier Art Services @atelier.fas
I will be highlighting more works in my stories over the coming days. Show closes in 1 week!
Thanks to all who came for the opening. It was a great turn out!
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#phillyart #phillyartist #peeling #toremember #fromanotherworld #conditionreport #stateoftheunion #stateoftheart
Encrypted Poem
2024
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13” x 19”
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If you’re in Philly and interested in receiving one, lmk. I’d like to organize a dinner + drawing session.
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If you’re not in Philly, but interested in trying to decrypt, lmk. I’ll send you 2 copies. keep one, send me back your drawn in attempt at decryption.
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I am very lucky to have met @phillyplastico 😊 and sooo excited/relieved that the proof of concept recycled plastic collages for @muralarts was a success!
1) check out the @phillyplastico webshop! Support local small businesses who are keeping plastic out of the landfill!!
2) I am still in need of bike donations. 15 more to be exact - bent, broken, end of life, etc. (Yes, these 2 things are related- promise)
I have always struggled to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day publicly. For one, aside from a few Jewish people/organizations on social media, the world has always been suspiciously quiet on this day. Secondly, I feel too much to make a simple or somber post, so I usually choose to mark the day privately. This year I need to say something because my grief for my Jewish family is only matched by my anger about what is happening to the Palestinian people right now. I began the day journaling about healing generational trauma that is embedded so far below the surface that only three generations on are we starting to name it. I am reminded that this kind of healing is a relative luxury and even if a ceasefire was put into effect today some Palestinian families will still be working through it 70 years from now. The fall out from these events is so much bigger than 25,000+ murders.Today I am reminded that the word Shoah in Hebrew means the same as Nakba in Arabic: Catastrophe.
If we are to say Never Again and mean it, we have to remember the Heraro and Namaqua genocide, which was perpetuated by Germany in present day Namibia, and is where Germans developed the techniques used against my family. If we are to say Never Again and mean it, we have to remember the Roma, communists, disabled, queer people, and anyone who dared to be an ally during the Shoah. If we are to say Never Again and mean it while living in the so called United States, we have to remember the genocide of Indigonous peoples. We have to remember every group of people who has been dispossessed of their land, culture, family, language and memory in the name of someone else’s ‘purity,’ ‘nationality,’ ‘prosperity,’ ‘hope,’’goodness.’ ‘whiteness,’ ‘godliness,’ ..and I mean this with all seriousness... ‘economy.’ If we are to say Never Again and mean it we have to remember Palestinians today.
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The above image is from my proposal with Liam Ze’ev O’Connor for the Holocaust Memorial in downtown Philadelphia. I am proud that we advanced to the second round, but since we were not selected, and since I regret that the committee did not get to see any of our proposal images, I wanted to share.
U.S. Veto of U.N. Ceasefire Resolution
12.8.23
Experiments. First 2 are 9x9”, next 2 are 17x17”
Sliding scale $48-107
I will donate anything over $25 to purchasing SIM cards for Palestinians, which I’ve had success doing.
2024 is International Year of Mourning. Every day will be a *paid* National Holiday, set aside to mourn and to remember tragedies of anti/colonial and anti/capitalist struggle.
*Contribute info to calendar via links in bio* please share widely so this goes beyond my immediate network* also accepting .jpgs for possible print version*
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We are overwhelmed by a history that has been forgotten or misremembered. If we do know the story, we are not given the time to process, make connections, or properly grieve because we are constantly tied up in making ends meet.
The origin of this project goes back quite a ways, but the impetus right now is clearly in response to the crisis in Gaza with a death toll of possibly 20,000 in less than 2 months. Sadly this will not make Jews safer. this is deeply flawed. support is dissolving from people of conscience, If the apartheid state wasn’t enough. Other hearts are hardened by apocalyptic visions or fear. As a viral tweet stated .. some of us thought we meant Never Again for Anyone… and some though it was Never Again for Us… and now we have to recon with that. I do think American diasporic Jews who are speaking up for Palestinian Human Rights and against the US backed war machine, have a unique role to play in peeling apart the simplistic narrative.
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But this conflict is set inside of a much larger story that touches most of the globe, spanning centuries. Please help tell the story.
