As you all know the Resist G8/20 week-end was a crazy circus of police repression. Everyone is now engaged in heated debate and there will be more fallout from the events to organize around. The police repression mirrors the economic repression of the G8/20 organization which does not represent the interests of people but sees us as mute fodder for their agenda. We see the nature of this system operating through discipline and threat of both economic penalty for an inability to conform to the capitalist regime of life behind which lies the threat of pure force for active dissent and desire to discuss and participate in the democratic process.
Junction resident Michael Ricks took this opportunity to make a symbolic gesture with this wonderful sculpture that we alternately carried at the Saturday rally. The response by our fellow protesters was overwhelming to this work, they were really able to work the symbolism into their understanding of what was going on.
This photo was taken by Nick Van der Graaf
Artist's Statement: The idea came to me about two days before the G20 demo to take the two signs and juxtapose them into one. The dollar sign represents money as the medium of exchange. The crucifix represents the conjunction of unconscious sacrifice with the body as reality. Sacrifice is a subset of exchange as is substitution (in this case the making of an image). The work recourses the fundamental crisis point in the Mosaic Code of the making of the Brazen Serpent. It's working title is "nehush/nehash: Nehushtan".
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