Veiled Quotidian Transgressions
“The Jews will not replace us, you will not replace us”
“white lives matter.”
Geometric and organic hate symbols repeated in different patterns to create abstract textiles, printed digitally on knit and polyester handkerchiefs and tied to 88 (HH -a hate symbol) tikki torches
political confusion
incongruent, conflicting elements
unfold a dialogue
divided selves
reflect
address provocation,
the dilemma
get involved, get caught and then let go,
distancing, blurring the lines between fiction and reality,
abstract and tangible,
irrational and rational
investigate
the rise of white nationalism
the meaning of patriotism
a study of cause and effect
the tarp wrapped confederate monuments
the tangible civil and political unrest
is America a corporation
responding to the polarity
remove these monuments
subject populace to systemic regimes
humans placed in false hierarchize dichotomies,
public/private borders unstable
white supremacists, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, Klansmen, neo-Nazis, and various militias.
marched and chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans,
carrying semi-automatic rifles, and brandished swastikas, confederate battle flags, anti-Muslim as well as anti-Semitic banners.
tiki torches -a banal object or a symbol of hate?
the rise of white nationalism and the meaning of patriotism
