History
by Eric Avery
Linoleum cut
“Avery appropriated a Mexican paper cutout to sumbolize the relationship of the United States to the countries of Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. He transferred the Mexican image to linoleum, slightly altering the skeleton figures and adding the names of the countries, all with macabre results. The United States becomes a Satan, controlling the activities of others.”
Foraging For Food
by Meredith Stern
Reduction Cut Linoleum Block Print
“Two bearish kitties run through the woods picking hen of the woods mushrooms in the fall. This is a print about eating local, eating free, in the environment where you live. We collected several baskets of hen of the woods mushrooms this year out in the park where we live, and they are the most tasty, amazing mushrooms I’ve ever eaten. They live at the base of oak trees, so the oak leaves play a prominent role in this print. They make an excellent soup stock. Color is a little varied from this photo, I had a hard time getting an accurate photo with the correct coloring, so in actuality the print is a little more orange-ish than it appears.”
How Many Dead
by Roger Peet
Blockprint and stencil
11”x18”
Acid-free mulberry paper
“This piece was inspired by Josh and Icky’s pieces which feature the same question. I really like that question, and wanted with this piece to bring it to bear on a broader ecological context. Specifically, the vultures of South Asia. South Asia’s vultures have declined by a staggering 99% in the past ten years, due to the use of the anti-inflammatory drug Diclofenac in cattle. When Vultures eat dead cattle that have been treated with Diclofenac, they die rapidly from gout and renal failure. As usual this is a complex story, with surprising ramifications. India’s herders typically leave their dead cattle alone, expecting them to be skeletonized by the vultures in short order. In the absence of vultures the population of wild dogs has exploded, and these rabid animals are biting people at a much higher rate. Numerous cases of anthrax in humans have been reported, again because of a lack of vultures to dispose of disease-ridden corpses. The Parsis, a small religious group who are forbidden by their beliefs from burying their dead, and have historically placed their corpses in “Towers of Silence” to be disposed of by vultures, have seen the bedrock of their ancient culture annihilated. Now they try to accelerate decomposition with mirrors. It seems that soon these beautiful, glorious, vital birds will be extinct, another victim of the accidental ecocide that humanity sows like so much poisoned grain.”
Catarchy
Meredith Stern
2 color linoleum and wood block
12.5” x 4”
“It’s winter, which for me usually means hunkering down to do some reading. I was stuck on making a print, so I figured I’d make a cat reading a book. I was trying to think of what symbol cats might have for an anarchist uprising, and I figured; a paw in the air. So, here is my twisted fantasy of a cat reading anarchist theory in the dead of winter, so that once spring comes, uprising will cometh.”
Extinción
by Santiago Armengod
One color relief block print
14” x 25”
This is an image part of a small series of prints, that attempt to take on the subject of climate change, the destruction of ecosystems, plants, animals, and our collaboration as a species to this devastation.
On the left side of the image there is a live crow, and on the right side there a crow skull, and they represent duality and our paradoxical situation as a dominant species in which along with all of the species that become extinct day in and day out we dig our own grave.
Curiously this indoctrinated society feels exempt from the permanent disappearance despite the alarming signs in the path we have set ourselves to walk on. It feels exempt from its contribution to the earth and the environment, denying the most basic life process’ such as aging, death, and an irrational cult for youth. It’s time for us to look at the way the world is intertwined, that without death there’s no life, and that without natural resource extraction there is no capitalism.
Torture In Chile
Nancy Spero
Silkscreen, 1975
New York, New York
6019
Text: Torture in Chile Buen Pastor Jail Women Have Been Subjected to the Most Brutal Tortures Live Mice and Insects introduced Into Vaginas. Nipples Blown Off or Burnt. Genitals Destroyed By Electricity
On September 11, 1973, the democratically elected government of Chile was overthrown by a CIA backed coup led by Augusto Pinochet. This poster describes some of the torture techniques used against women prisoners during the Pinochet dictatorship.
“Each culture determines those forms which its art will take and seek nothing less than the destruction of this culture. We have an art which is a substitute for living, a culture which is an excuse for the utter poverty of life. The call for revolution can be no less than ‘total.’ To change the wielders of power is not enough, we must finally change life itself.” — Black Mask #7, August 1967
Artist: Andalusia Knoll
created for Critical Resistance’s 10th Anniversary
