so, ‘whose voice’ defends society? and, whose ‘society’? is it your obligation to defend ‘only’ ‘your’ ‘society’? where does one society begin and another end?

A new portrait of President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley was unveiled Monday at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

The commissioned portrait of Michelle Obama, by Amy Sherald.

The Hidden Political Message of Michelle Obama’s Portrait

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so, whose ‘voice’? whose ‘society’ needs defending?

i defend the work of an anonymous graffiti artist:

On Feb 21, 2018, at 5:55 AM, Alf wrote:

tell us what you see on the wall

what i see on the wall… at first sight, visually, the artist’s transformation through compositional inclusion of the facade’s areas of fallen plaster. whereby, he’s commented on the cycles of birth and death…. he’s revalued ‘decay’ as a positive and troubling force/event/element. and emphasized the fact that there is NO guarantee that this corn born child will survive. he’s composed the broken plaster areas into a shape that is both a cartoon-like thought bubble, and the typographical symbol of a question mark. which door will the future walk through? this artwork is not a commodity. to those who can read it’s hidden messages, it’s a call to consider that this historical moment hangs by a thread between life and death. the near future of the entire planet is unquestionably in doubt. is there any doubt that this corn-born-child is entering a future, dessicated hell?

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so, ‘whose voice’ defends society? and, whose ‘society’? is it your obligation to defend ‘only’ ‘your’ ‘society’? where does one society begin and another end?

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