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I am SO excited about this!  The human rights institute at Webster University is actually going to build one of the Guantanamo Bay detainee cell replicas!  It is being organized by the brilliant head of the human rights department at Webster University  Andrea Miller.  I cannot wait to help build it.  I’ll post more info as soon as I learn the details.  Until then here is a photo from the official Amnesty International Cell Tour.

As a final project for an International Human Rights course at Webster University in St. Louis I created a human rights awareness pamphlet on Israel and the occupied territory. It provides an overview of the recent developments in this extremely complex issue as well as some pictures and artwork. The idea was to create it sort of in the style of the Amnesty International magazines… I turned it in today. Here are a few pages of it:

Here it is! Give it five stars… you know you want to. :

Notice the man performing cannot help but crack a smile as he walks out of frame. Because the torture has been slightly removed from reality and the victim has been dehumanized (being a teddy bear) the man performing has forgotten he is reenacting violent and grotesque method of torture. It illustrates the startling methodology of the U.S. government and how it works. By dehumanizing Muslims and Arabic people in general as violent terrorists, the U.S. can convince relatively moral people to drown another human being all while smiling for the camera.

A sculpture for my class with John Watson. It deals with notions of ecological mindfulness, bee disease, my grandpa, and a disconnect with nature.