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Content Warning:

Blood, injury.

The piece titled 'No Dominion'. Long description below.

[Long description:

Protest art in the style of a linocut print. It’s black and white, with a dash of blood red thrown in. The top of the print is rendered in mostly white, and reads ‘NO DOMINION OVER LAND.’ It depicts a Coyote Woman with her foot stuck in a bear trap. She clutches the stream of her own blood, or maybe the stream that washes her blood away. It flows across the border, to the bottom half of the composition, which is rendered in mostly black.

Here, a Javelina Man pries open the bear trap with his formidable teeth, freeing Coyote Woman. He holds the rest of the river as it becomes braided into a delta. This text reads ‘NO DOMINION OVER LIFE.’]

No Dominion

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He was staring out at the impounded waters of the Artibonite. They stretched off to the east and west and out of sight among the mountains. From here the amount of land the dam had drowned seemed vast. Still gazing, Farmer said, “To understand Russia, to understand Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Boston, identity politics, Sri Lanka, and Life Savers, you have to be on top of this hill.”

The list was clearly jocular. So was his tone of voice. But I had the feeling he had said something important. I thought I got it, generally. This view of drowned farmland, the result of a dam that had made his patients some of the poorest of the poor, was a lens on the world. His lens. Look through it and you’d begin to see all the world’s impoverished in their billions and the many linked causes of their misery.

– Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Thinking about borders and bodies of water and human bodies today. Let’s be Javelina Men for one another, ok?

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This piece is available as a print and shirt.

[small print] [large print]; [men’s shirt] [women’s shirt]; [men’s shirt variant 2] [women’s shirt variant 2]

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