STENCIL SERIES (Ongoing)
This series of hand made stencil explores the transient relationship between image, space, time, and langauge. How the amalgamation of a stencil can defy process and logic. The former and latter result in an ever evolving path and intervention between different events while the stencil captures process and time, moments sealed by decay and desruption.
How language and imagery function, with that of the text civil disobedience and the written word MAS? Which translates in Spanish to MORE? The stencil becomes a dialogue and intervention to expand the preconceived/ pop cultural imagery of David Henry Thoreau essay in 1849 entitled Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience). Using photographs of family and friends rather than common images like, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Gandhi and the Dalai Lama, civil disobedience becomes a familiar face and also a fading one as the decay ever shadows the contemporary issues of civil disobedience and abused power.
The text for this poster was taken from a video conference between George Bush Jr., the U.S. Military, and civilian personnel in which the president gave thanks for a job well done in Iraq. The posters made, were given away in gallery spaces in Los Angeles, Illinois and New York as part of a traveling exhibition. The text tranforms the illusivness stated about the war in Iraq to each person the posters were given to.
