Original - Control. Get Some.

2022

18”x24”

Medium: Watercolor, indigo ink, acrylic, blue drafting pencil   

This piece of peace is titled, CONTROL. GET SOME. Like all of my work, this is an outlet piece. A space for me to meditate and process things about our world that may be troubling me. I created this one after xxxxx mass shooting committed by whoever it was this time. This piece is a collection of different imaginary controls. As noted by NPR re: mass shootings… A staggering 98% of these crimes have been committed by men. (source: The Violence Project, a nonpartisan research group that tracks U.S. mass shooting data dating back to 1966.)

NPR reports that young white men far outnumber others for these crimes. Certainly if you are paying attention, you know this. So why is there no National conversation around teaching cis males to take responsibly for themselves, and stop outsourcing their suffering? Why are there no mandatory nationwide emotional intelligence classes offered in elementary and middle school, teaching this demographic how to process emotion in a way that is generative, and not destructive? Certainly we ALL need these classes no matter the gender, but it cannot be denied that the failure to process and deal with a situation/emotion, results in the death of others most frequently when we are talking cis men. Who knows. I know it’s complicated. All I can say is…… CONTROL….GET SOME. And for all those who DO have control, and ARE emotionally intelligent…. Please…. Collect your friends.