According to the PNAC, “Genetically targeted weapons could change world politics for ever, and the report notes, advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific geno-types may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool”
A;so, according to a recent article, Cheney nixed the ban on chemical weapons…
AM’s piece reminds me of blood cells and nefarious biology camouflaged under a cute animation graphic. However, I am well aware that most art is an Rorschach inkblot, and whatever is in you is what you project onto the art…lol
Perhaps, it is me that’s evil…lol

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Apr 18 2008 18:38 utc | 4

Thanks all for the comments, have been very busy lately making these things – and am very heartened that b lets me share them.
The back story on this one is that while I was working on it, it was hanging in a particular spot in the art shack that is visible when its dark out, from the kitchen window in the house. When I would come in the house my wife remarked that the picture really “looked evil” to her. Because I turned the lights out when I came in, I couldn’t see it like her from in the house, so had no clue what she was talking about. Until several nights later when I left the lights on and could see it at a distance like she did. It was like Ack! She was right. And I still don’t know how that happened.

Posted by: anna missed | Apr 19 2008 2:20 utc | 6

these textures you are working w/ are powerful, hewn from the largest organisms on the planet, adding a whole other layer to the concept of a figure-ground relationship. no doubt, in person these works even stimulate our sense of smell & as much as eye feel drawn to reach out and actually feel its surfaces & edges, i also imagine the risk of drawing a splinter. almost as sharp would be the contrasts of colors applied, which never fail to bring out the pareidoliac in me 😉
impressive stuff. thanks again for sharing it w/ us.

Posted by: b real | Apr 19 2008 3:49 utc | 8

TORTURES by Wislawa Szymborska
Nothing has changed.
The body is a reservoir of pain;
it has to eat and breathe the air, and sleep;
it has thin skin and the blood is just beneath it;
it has a good supply of teeth and fingernails;
its bones can be broken; its joints can be stretched.
In tortures all of this is considered.
Nothing has changed.
The body still trembles as it trembled
before Rome was founded and after,
in the twentieth century before and after Christ.
Tortures are just what they were, only the earth has shrunk
and whatever goes on sounds as if it’s just a room away.
Nothing has changed.
Except there are more people,
and new offenses have sprung up beside the old ones–
real, make-believe, short-lived, and non-existent.
But the cry with which the body answers for them
was, is, and will be a cry of innocence
in keeping with the age-old scale and pitch.
Nothing has changed.
Except perhaps the manners, ceremonies, dances.
The gesture of the hands shielding the head
has nonetheless remained the same.
The body writhes, jerks, tugs,
falls to the ground when shoved, pulls up its knees,
bruises, swells, drools, and bleeds.
Nothing has changed.
Except the run of rivers,
the shapes of forests, shores, deserts, and glaciers.
The little soul roams among those landscapes,
disappears, returns, draws near, moves away,
evasive and a stranger to itself,
now sure, now uncertain of its own existence,
whereas the body is and is and is
and has nowhere to go.

Posted by: Copeland | Apr 19 2008 4:36 utc | 10

am
it is impressive

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Apr 19 2008 13:36 utc | 12

that panzer pope knows a thing about evil with his acolytes in opus dei & what is left of theandreotti/mafia wing of italian politics

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Apr 19 2008 18:42 utc | 14