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Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Fake News Schism


“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
6.5″ x 8″-Mixed Media on Ingres paper
Its just a sketch tossed off in a couple of hours, the culmination of feeling like one’s head has been encased in concrete for six months.
Except to say, it encapsulates entirely the tumult of these politically divisive times, where falsehoods are legitimized as alternative facts, where lies are filtered through a monocle of partisan bias, where reality has no cachet because everything does.

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