#rifka

[mikec137]

Brugg, Switzerland, December 2025

[umdbooklab]

set and printed by yours truly, slogan by RB. Fall 2023

[silverfrostheart]

LIST OF SOME PEEPS I HOPE YOU GET TO KNOW

Feel free to ask about any of them! I'm hoping to start doing short stories with them to try and bring back up my motivation and inspiration.

Aslan/Ghost/Adam

Wallis Salazar

Kokabiel Meteora

(THIS GUY BELONGS TO @dreamseersystem but I'm putting him in this cuz he's a big part of these characters stories)

Maron Slug

(Putting this boy too belongs to @jumpybox )

Amir Brandt

Winter Hat

Esther

Conrad Brandt -- @jumpybox again

Blair Singer

The Grey hat crew @nullandbalance (my ask blog for them)

Static Hat

Aksel Brandt-- @jumpybox

Roxas Cyclonus (forgot him up there.)

Elle Witcaz ---@jumpybox

Drew Parks

Reed Slug

Rifka Walsh -- @kiaraleephoenix

(Art by @kiaraleephoenix posted with permission)

[portmanteu]

New oc from @queans ! Her name is Rifka and she’s a tattoo artist

[umdbooklab]

it's not Friday but someday it will be. set and printed by Rifka

[wormcurse]

Rifka sketch

[emiliyathecossack]

My dog hiding from my daughter's crying.

Move over I want to join you Rifka.

[umdbooklab]

This was my big project for the semester. It took me probably six weeks. The background is slogans of protest signs I printed, and the foreground is If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer and an original quote. The final image is the laser-etched tikkun olam type piece I made.

Artist's Statement:

We often look at the past as a picture pulled into focus by the writers of history, rather than an entanglement of events and people and messaging. We forget that the student protests against apartheid, against the Vietnam and Iraq wars, were decried as violent unrest. The pieces of art made for those movements were deemed too controversial or political at the time; and now we display those pieces in our museums, on the walls of our reading rooms on the fourth floor of our libraries. Our universities call it a “history of student activism.” We forget that in the days in which the pieces were produced the art curators of the days, the university administrations, the parents, the news media, and the politicians were usually against those movements. When we look at past protest movements we know some opposed them, but we think of them as "bad people," who are nothing like us "good people," because we could never be so blind or so prejudiced.

This piece is made with the type I used for several protest signs--as I made those signs, and as I made this piece, I took the time to reflect on how the opinions I was expressing lined up with my concept of the history of protest and oppression. I used the phrase tikkun olam—"repair the world" in Hebrew—because I feel aligned with the history of Jewish activism and the need to repair our world, but I include it in this piece specifically because I acknowledge that there have always been Jews who were blind and prejudiced; believing that I am following a commandment does not mean I am kind or righteous.

We forget that many people—often those who we think of as “good people”—opposed those movements, and that most of them are ashamed of those opinions today. But when we view history with a lens crafted by the victors and do not turn that same gaze upon the actions and creations of today, we do the world a disservice. We do the people of history a disservice by forgetting that many of them were just as fallible as many of us are today, and we do ourselves a disservice by forgetting we are as fallible as those who came to regret their actions. One day we will join the ranks of the people of history and the people of the future will be looking back at us. There is no perfect way to know we're doing the right thing. But we cannot start from a place of thinking that we would have been just as righteous if we were alive during the history we look back at, or that we will always take the righteous actions today.