"John Lennon/Peace"

MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS BOARD

PAPER IMAGES, ACRYLIC PAINT,BEADS,KEYCHAIN,T-SHIRT SECTION

Collection of Merz Gallery, Scotland

This artwork called "Brainwashed" is about survival, no matter the era, and the extreme maneuvers that so many people have had to undertake in order to keep body and soul as one. 

It’s about the stories we’re told by our governments, who always claim that their mandate is to operate in our best interests, yet everywhere in society we see scores of examples where the opposite is true. 

This piece is about keeping a blind eye to the downtrodden, underprivileged, invisible majority of citizens who hover at the poverty line while governments enable the rich to thrive. Symbolically, I wish to show that even in this age more and more citizens are out there on a limb, using every desperate measure available to attract their proverbial slice of the economic pie. There is no safety net to protect them or to break their fall. They don’t know better than to risk their lives for a false promise which keeps them hopeful and blind to another reality. 

(I wish to thank John Dominis for the inspiration provided by his photograph of aerialist, Betty Fox skipping rope twenty stories above downtown Chicago in 1955).

Mixed media on canvas using acrylic paints, artists pens, paper, pencil & watercolour pencils. 30" x 30" x 1 1/4".

SOLD