NEW PPOV PAINTINGS!
“Call Out & Deconstruct Hate”
New works in progress, evolving from my “Common Origins” series.
Contemporary culture remains complex, now more than ever, especially during this horrific pandemic.
For hundreds of years, as a matter of conscience, artists have responded to the moment as a form of creative expression and decidedly as a moral and political act. Though challenged, the creative process remains as a source for healing and resilience.
When I saw Donald Trump proclaim his theatrics and mock a disabled journalist, I was dismayed and angered. Now he admonishes military veterans who have and continue to make the greatest sacrifice for their country as “losers” and “suckers” and military leaders as “f..kers” and “p..sies”. His pattern of lies, bullying, misogyny, cover-ups, voter suppression, nationalistic white supremacist stoked citizen and fueled racial divide and downplayed response to the COVID-19 crisis
for his personal benefit defies human decency and defines failed leadership. My older brother Terry, mentor and life long inspiration, just died of Covid-19. While grieving , I am angered.
At this cataclysmic moment in our country and throughout the globe, fascism runs rampant.
Coming from a family of Veterans, including my father's WWII service,
my brother Michael's service and my own, USAF, Vietnam Era, '70-'74, I am compelled to respond.
My personal point of view (PPOV) in response is expressed
in these developing paintings below, “Call Out & Deconstruct Hate”. - MD '20
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"PPOV: CALL OUT and Deconstruct Hate...Ukraine Roars", mixed media,
multi-generational altered digital image, acrylic on canvas, 30"x72", 2022
PPOV (Personal Point of View): Common Origins – Double Illusion Disability 4; color spatial refraction: multi-generational digital image, acrylic on vinyl, 48"x96", 2020. Photo Image Credit:
Los Angeles Post Examiner, Middle Men and Women: The real ones, James Moore, January 17, 2018.
PPOV (Personal Point of View): Common Origins – Double Illusion Disability 4; color spatial refraction: work in progress. Photo Image Credit:
Los Angeles Post Examiner, Middle Men and Women: The real ones, James Moore, January 17, 2018», 2020
PPOV II: Common Origins – Call Out & Deconstruct Hate: altered digital image, latex enamel, acrylic on canvas, 48"x48", or sizes variable, 2020. Photo image credit: “More Perfect Union Podcast”, November 30, 2015.
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PPOV III: Common Origins – Call Out & Deconstruct Hate: altered digital image, latex enamel, acrylic on vinyl, 60"x60", or sizes variable, 2020. Photo image credit: “More Perfect Union Podcast”, November 30, 2015.
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PPOV: Common Origins – My Voice: End Crimes Against Humanity 3; color spatial refraction; work in progress; image credit: More Perfect Union Podcast, November 30, 2015», 2020
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PPOV: Common Origins – My Voice: End Crimes Against Humanity 4; color spatial refraction; work in progress; image credit: More Perfect Union Podcast, November 30, 2015», 2020
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Studio view: "PPOV: CALL OUT Deconstruct Hate I and II...", multi-generational digital images, acrylic on canvas, 40"x60" and 36"x48", 2021