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Facebook December 6, 2010
Welcome back to the America the rest of the
world loves to hate. The bullet-less assassination of Barack Obama, and by
association... hope, change and the hope for change is all but complete. I
dare you Mr. President... no... I double dare you to install those solar
panels on the Whitehouse roof tempting the fate which befell Jimmy Carter.
In truth with Dubya and Palin on book tours and Christine O'Donnell getting a
book deal, the America we all love and hate never really went far. Ya gotta
give 'em poor rich folk a break. If you don't... how will dey get any
richer? $250.000.00. Take half of that and I would consider myself doing
well, affording me to put solar panels on my own home.
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Stages of Hope
(The election of Barack Obama as a sign of the times and the effect on
Hope.)
As a sign of the times, the election of Barack
Obama revived in me an all but dormant hope that sanity still lurked
somewhere in the shadows of a mad world. Through the Facebook photo album
"Stages of Hope" I use and
abuse the iconic Shepard Fairey Hope poster to express my own hopes as they
ebb and flow. Lately my hope in humanity's sanity has seen better days
and we'll see what the future brings. I can only hope...
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January 1, 2011
The iconic Obama poster hangs in my studio much as it is seen here, ripped
up, taped together and then crushed. Hope only knows what will happen
to it next. I thought of doing a rainbow version but the gay rights
issue (Don't ask. Don't tell.) should have been a given, in the land of "all men (and women) are
created equal".
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"Battered Hope" ~
Digitally Recycled Recreation originally published through the Facebook
Photo Album "Stages of Hope" Copyright © 2010 by Petrus H. Boots
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Just one more...
The original Shepard Fairey Obama Hope Poster alongside the original
photo for which he got in copyright trouble. Precedent set, I use artistic
license and also choose to ignore copyright law doing what I please
as far as expressing my hope and the loss of it.
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Disclaimer: Use of images and quotations on this page are meant to illustrate and
enhance a personal point of view and in no way indicates or infers the
individuals depicted or the photographer's or artist's support of any
opinion or statements expressed by the author.
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