Recycled my No Kings sign from June

Side A: No Kings F 🧊
Side B: Hands Off Our Healthcare!!!, with a doodle of me bringing down a cast-iron skillet on a tiny orange hand slithering out of a hole in the ground

Not my most inspired or formally inventive but I think it gets the point across

Pretty joyous vibes at No Kings Oakland

Making a tiger linocut for new 12’ x 12’ piece tentatively titled ‘Revolutionary Planting Calendar’, which will be showing in South Korea later this fall. Apparently tigers were a symbol of Korean sovereignty in resistance to Japanese imperialism during WWII

Been working on a new painting about plants & animals + liberation struggles and spending a lot of time studying Albrecht Dürer’s “Great Piece of Turf” (1503), a watercolor depicting a gorgeous clump of weeds. Thinking about how power is underfoot everywhere, in the ‘ordinary’ + beneath our feet

10£ and 10ƒ redesigns in intaglio form

And here is a 10-guilder banknote made from a tulip catalogue I found in a rummage bin. Did you know that the first recorded speculative bubble in the world was over tulips (which are from Central Asia, fyi)? Single bulbs would sell for over 10x the annual salary of a skilled artisan

Hard not to think about failed empires these days. Here’s a 10£ banknote I designed w/the poppies section of one of my heirloom seed catalogues, as a nod to the British Empire’s flooding of opium — produced on their plantations in India — into China in order to reduce their trade deficit. Nefarious

The highlights are blown out but not too terrible for an initial test run. Also I swear this project has nothing to do with the fact that a certain unelected billionaire with quasi-governmental powers has just seized control of our treasury 🫥

Collaged together a $1 bill made of seed catalogue pics of watermelon/okra/cowpeas & a $100 bill of the Three Sisters (squash, corn, beans) 🌽🍉 b/c where else does *actual* wealth come from but the earth and its bounty

Cutting up my old heirloom seed catalogues for collage work

Just learned that one of my art heroes, Jaune Quick-to-See-Smith (Confederated Salish/Kootenai), passed away last week. Deeply sad about this news, esp amidst the onslaught of these past 2 weeks. Sharing one of my fav (& quieter) pieces of hers, Kalispell #1 (1979) 💚

may you shed the skins that no longer suit you, keep your energy rooted to the ground, & sharpen your fangs in this year of the 🐍