Woven paper unraveling at the bottom
The General State of Things - woven paper, 44.5 x 30 inches.
I made this piece in the Ewing Gallery as I was hanging my thesis show almost exactly 5 years ago. I had one frame left over and a pit in my stomach. It was an immediate response to the moment that is frustratingly more relevant than ever.
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
AOC: "How rich is it that she is saying showing up to the scene of a protest with a legally owned weapon should be grounds for a person's death, execution at the hands of the state, by the same party and administration that praises Kyle Rittenhouse."
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
ICE attempted to order local police from the scene of the Minneapolis shooting, but the police chief refused and instructed his officers to preserve the crime scene.
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
The whole of Congress should be descending on Whipple right now.
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
I've talked to people on the ground about the strike here tomorrow, and the single thing everyone brings up is just how shockingly wide the support for the strike is. Businesses that no one would have expected to support it are doing so.
I've been here 24 hours, but already with what I've seen, well, I genuinely believe we're going to win. People here are well aware that what happens here impacts the entire country, that it sets the tone for resistance. ICE is angry, ICE is terrified, of how deeply unpopular it is.
ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.
I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
Deep in that post residency/exhibition rut where you forget how you come to ideas or make art, where everything feels hard and ugly. I always think I’ve lost it and have to trust that like every other time I just have to force myself through it.
betrayed by admin pumping school (often public) $ into grifter bubble corporate welfare, disgusted by colleagues shamelessly cheating - BUT buoyed by the students, who still want to learn, with their own big brains
God I relate to this.
There have been fascist adjacent elements in the USA for decades. Now it’s straight up fascism, they don’t even hid it, they celebrate it.
Single payer now
It's honestly wild that all the people who spent years, more than a decade actually, losing their mind over "cancel culture" are now making parody of the excess of peak PC cancellations and at breakneck speed
This data was paid for by the public and therefore it is free for scientists, artists, and anyone else to use, at least for the time being.
It was created in part with publicly available governmental geospatial data. Specifically, The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Minnesota Wetlands dataset and The Minnesota Geospatial Information Office Lidar Elevation dataset.
I cannot help but connect its irony to my feelings about parenthood. Bounty and scarcity, joy and fear, inevitable unpredictable change. This is the seed that created this body of work.
If you’re wondering a bit about the work…I commute to Northfield MN everyday and I spend time thinking about this strange land that is both full of fresh water and drought prone. There issomething nonsensical about it to me.
Learning to Live in Drought Surrounded by Water Artist talk Thursday October 2nd - 12:10-1:00pm Carleton College Gould Library Athenaeum
I will be giving an artist talk about my latest body of work “Learning to Live in Drought Surrounded by Water” on October 2nd at Carleton College’s Gould Library. My work will be on display all term long. If you’re around Northfield and have interest please join.
Color me shocked!
fight the disinfo on arts and basic sciences education outcomes!
humanitiesworks.org
c18 printing press
there's a reason why printing presses look so much like guillotines
