The Political Leadership Debate
2008 12 x 19" ~ 30.5 x 48 cm Hand Pulled Serigraph ~ 19 StencilsEdition 54 ~ Artist Proofs 6I was listening to a radio interview with a politician one day. Gradually I stopped what I was doing, and just stared at the radio slack jawed. What the politician was saying bore no resemblance to the truth; it wasn’t even a shade of gray. He was speaking forcefully, and peppering his dialogue with words like absolutely, and of course. If I had not known better, I would have been sure, based on his conviction, that he was speaking the truth. The interviewer let the politician rant, finally when the politician finished what he had to say, there was a noticeable pause, and then the interviewer said, “Can you explain where you are coming from with that, because history does not bear up what you are saying.”
As with any stereotype, a small minority ends up painting everybody with the same brush. This serigraph is not dedicated to all politicians, only to those few who have worked so hard to earn the title of ‘weasel’, ‘rat’, ‘fox’, or ‘snake’.
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