Sometimes I think about this @l7theband inspired helmet I made with reflective paint for a @babesrideout raffle to benefit Moto F.A.M. (a nonprofit that raises funds for riders in serious accidents). I would love to *never* use reflective paint again (lol) but I hope whoever won it enjoyed many safe rides wearing it!!
@latimes commissioned some embroidered pieces for a feature about the 100 year anniversary of Route 66, and it’s out today! 🚗💨 Art direction by @tofuhomestyle
Five years ago this month, I got a message asking if I’d like to design the branding for a new Italian restaurant called @segnatorechi . Working with their Italian folk healer aesthetic to make a logotype and icons was such a fun process and I’m grateful for the opportunity. Their last days open are next week, with final service on the 16th - if you’ve never been, I highly recommend going while you still can 🤍
This week, we celebrate the international labor movement, commemorating the day that a general strike began in the US on May 1, 1886, ending in the Haymarket affair four days later. I wanted to share this letter written from prison by Albert Parsons (one of the Chicago anarchists martyred after the Haymarket affair). Finding this letter inspired me to make this *People Over Prophets* stained glass piece in 2021:
A LETTER ON RELIGION
Cook County Bastille, Cell No. 29
Chicago, November 3, 1887
Editor of the Tribune:
In your issue of today on the “People’s Page,” and column headed “Voice of the People,” a correspondent asks: “To settle a dispute please state what religion Anarchist Parsons has, or has he any religion?” To which you reply, “No.”
To settle a dispute concerning my religious belief, which will doubtless arise after my judicial assassination, when it will be beyond my power to speak, I desire to say to your inquirer, and to all others, that religion in the sense now understood and practiced by those who profess it is merely a blind faith of the honestly superstitious, or a cloak of designing knaves.
If there is a Supreme Being, or Almighty God, who rules the universe, the sphere as well as the actions of puny men, then why do those who profess allegiance to Him cast aside and violate His laws and impeach His integrity and insult His beneficency by erecting man-made governments and enacting man-made laws, and use the bloody weapons of war to prop up and maintain these man-made laws and Government?
My religion, if it can be called such–is viz: Who so lives right dies right; there is but one God– Humanity. Any other kind of religion is a mockery, a delusion, and a snare.
Respectfully,
Albert R. Parsons
🥀 Happy Mayday, International Workers’ Day 🥀 Last year, @forestparkhistory commissioned me to redesign the cover of their booklet commemorating the Haymarket martyrs and other working class heroes buried at the Forest Park cemetery. It was an incredible opportunity and an honor.
