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3/16/2006

 

rainbow coalition

A couple of years ago, my dear friend Sean remarked about my artwork, "Why do you always draw crazy people as black?"
I was aghast.
Not too long after, another friend made the opposite comment: "How come you never include any racial diversity in your drawings?"
It just proved to me that no matter how hard I might try to avoid any race baiting, someone's going to be upset.
I therefore find myself doing a lot of drawings like this one, where the people are blue and purple. It lets the viewer then project whatever racial notions they want onto the image.

The Blot: A 19-year-old man was watching TV ...

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