Disinformation

by Joedee

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14.000 x 12.000 inches

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Disinformation

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Joedee

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Drawing - Works On Paper

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"Disinformation" by the Revolutionary prison artist Joedee, was specifically created as political art for Californians to vote Yes in November of 2024, on Proposition 6, to end involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime.

He begins the political artwork with a type print story of Fredrick Douglas, who in 1844, gave such a stirring and compelling anti-slavery speech at the American Anti-slavery Society it sent his fame skyrocketing.

Joedee further tells us through type print, how slaves felt, noting the existence of slave revolts, like The Nat Turner Slave Insurrection in Virginia, in 1831.

He concludes in type print with another example of the feelings of the slaves, through the work songs they sung, such as "All My Trials," "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen," and "Lord, Soon be Over."

He visually story tells a raw and denuded version of slavery through artistically naked Black men, in neck shackles, wrist shackles, and ankle shackles. The symbolic inclusion of contemporary prison bars in which the central visual imagery of naked, shackled, Black men is a graphic reminder of the new form of bondage made legal by the Slavery Exception Clause written into the US constitution and many of the constitutions of its states.

Despite the bleakness, the teary-eyedness of this visual imagery, Joedee specifically sprinkles in strong symbols of hope, such as the clenched fists and wrists that have broken the chains, and the image of a dove, a symbol of hope and new beginnings.

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July 30th, 2024

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