"Yes?"
"Yes and No"Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.--Martin Luther King.
Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart.
--Mohandas Gandhi
There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they grow up in peace.
-- Kofi Annan
Every day
at least eight black people, three white people, three gay people, three Jewish people and one Latino person become hate crime victims.
Every week
a cross is burned.
All pieces are done in ink and acrylic on the pages of an old Social Psychology book.
Each individual has a key.
The sizes are approximately 7 x 10 inches.
Completed in 2008.
Drill
Glossy, Flowing Downstream
View from a Window
Daisy
Tree House
Too Much Noise
Jump
Unlikely Friends
The Butcher
The Baker
The Candle Stick Maker
And, All of Them Gone to Sea
Albert was Ordinary Too
First Bloom
Reaching Across the Water, to the Unknown
Standing in the Dry Grass, Waiting for Answers
Reaching for the Sun
Reaching for the Moon
Balance
Rule
Holding up the Sky
Snail
Seedling, Growing in the Sun
Standing in the Valley, Reaching for the Stars
Then She Walked to the Moon
Waterhole
Handing out the Seeds of Change
Reaching for the Moon on a Windy Night
Listening Through the Noise
Hiding
Seedling, Hiding in the Vines
Exchanging Words
The Last Rains
Change
Flowing as Water
Catching Wind
Spinning
"I am going to venture that the man who sat on the ground in his tee pee meditating on life and it's meaning, excepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization." --Chief Standing Bear of the Ponca Indians
The Messenger
The Messenger II
Blocked
Still. Resting.
Roots
Me and mama, Sleeping
Breathless
Listening to History (as told by Howard Zinn)
Men Listening for Buffalo
Woman Walking
Woman Juggling
Woman as Tree
We are Here
Woman Hiding
Waiting
Man as Flower
Man Feeling
Boy Listening
Woman Hiding
Woman Tied
Woman as Tree
