Wednesday, January 12, 2011

New Work!

Hey everyone! I just finished this piece today, "Pop Phelps" is part of my Faces of Evil Geniuses series, showcasing individuals from many different forums of society who have been called evil and who exhibit superb intellectual ability in some way. This man is the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church (i.e. The "God Hates Fags" people) and while his life has seemingly been dedicated to spreading hate and malice, he is also a lawyer who has exercised his first amendment rights to their limits. By engaging society in a dialogue about privacy, defamation, hate speech, and freedom, I deem him to be pure genius. For the purposes of this project, I have decided to mute as much of my own personal biases as I possibly can, I simply aim to present my audience with controversial individuals and ask them to consider, what is evil? what is brilliance/genius? and how far from each other are those two concepts, if at all? Please feel free to comment as I post more of these, engage me and react, I intend for this body of work to be exhibited within the year. Thanks for tuning in!!!

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