been trying to sleep for hours and am still awake so I drew a dinosaur to express my feelings and right now I'm simply feeling a profound lack of orange juice.
Ive been to this art installation when it was in Seattle it was made by an indigenous artist if I remember correctly it has small patches of astroturf in front of a black and white American flag with a sign that invites people “kneel and join in the screams of the American national anthem”
This piece is called Neon American Anthem bu indigenous artist Nicholas Galanin “to mourn the loss of lives, freedoms, and safety for people and lands subjected to American violence, and to protest continuing oppression.”
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[Image 1 Text: I’VE COMPOSED A NEW AMERICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM TAKE A KNEE AND SCREAM UNTILL YOU CAN’T BREATHE /end]
[Image 2 Text: If we sen you our land, you must remember, and teach your children. that the mers are our brothers and yours, and you must henceforth sive the rivers the kindness you would give to any brother.
The vtite man does not understand. One portion of land is the same to his ss se met lar he is a wanderer who comes in the night and borrows from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy and when he has won the struggle. he moves on. He leaves Is lathe's craves behind and he does not care. He kidnaps the earth tam is thiaten And he does not care. The father's graves and the childrents tirtright are forgotten by the white man, who treats his nother the eaith and his brother the sky as things to be bought. plackes, and sald. tike sheep, bread, or bright beads. In this way, tie dog al appelte will devour the rich earth and leave only a desert.
Neon American Anthem is a participatory installation designed to activate the American Art galleries at the Seattle Art Museum. The work offers visitors a place to kneel and follow the directive of a neon sign on the wall that reads, "I've composed a new American national anthem: take a knee and scream until you can't breathe." The work creates an intersectional space for catharsis; to mourn the loss of lives, freedoms, and safety for people and lands subjected to American violence, and to protest continuing oppression.
The neon sign embodies capitalism, its text a pointed reference to the murders of Eric Garner, George Floyd, Tyre Nichols and all people of color who have been murdered at the hands of police and agents of the American state. Asking participants to take a knee is a position of deference turned refusal; to scream until you can't breathe encompasses protest aimed at tearing down the systems built to enforce Whiteness, White privilege, heteropatriarchy and capitalist control. / end]
Crying and wailing over this adorable fucking robber fly that was at work today incredibly ridiculously cute animal. Sentient teddy bear. SO well behaved as I took it outside and took one million photos. Sending it a billion trillion kisses in its general direction I love you so much babyfly
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