Ink and mixed media on Nepalese mulberry paper, 120 x 108 inches
The Supreme Court Justices who decided that the Constitution does not confer a right to abortion oversee a forced birth. According to their reasoning, no rights exist if they weren’t explicitly written into the Constitution. In this scene of a miscarriage of justice, the Arms of Court preserve the principle of ‘Your body, my choice.’
Within this dark cave of unreason, high tech cauldrons, the autoclaves, purify children that women are forced to bear for the court. The psychological pressure and physical turbulence of bearing and rearing is sanitized in hell-broth out of sight.
Beliefs of various stripes lie on the field in a state-sanctioned, publicly funded religious spectacle. Justice Alito, Kavanaugh, and Clarence Thomas, with his conservative activist wife Ginni, harmonize as a barbershop quartet. Clarence and Ginni whisper sweet nothings like “we shall overcome” into each other’s ears. Ideals of coercion, forced labor and ownership remain “core family values.”
Moral Center or To Have and to Hold.
Arms of Court protect and preserve the legislation of ‘Your body my choice.’
Work in progress
50 yard line: Subduing beliefs of various stripes on the field in State sanctioned, publicly funded religious spectacle.
Four-part Harmony: Alito, Kavanaugh, Thomas and Thomas harmonize as a barbershop quartet
Core Values: Ideals of coercion, forced labor and ownership remain core family values.
Impartial, Chaste: Even women who suffer miscarriages could find themselves facing suspicion or scrutiny. Do miscarriages of justice?
If You Couldn’t See It Then You Can’t See It Now:
If you saw it but didn’t text it, it is not a right now.
No rights exist if they weren’t explicitly written into the Constitution, whether or not they were condoned but not codified, or unable to be perceived or understood.
Inciting lamps
The bronze bird in the middle alights on and defecates from the handle of a ram’s head oil lamp.
Ornamentation
Freedom Had to be Understood from the Inside:
Tiger's chaudron, and NRA millions,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
Dangling Dixie: A few Southern ear worms to keep the Rebel yell at bay.
Autoclave for the Domestic Supply of Infants: High tech cauldrons, the autoclaves, purify children that women are forced to bear for the court. The psychological pressure and physical turbulence of bearing and rearing is sanitized in hell-broth out of sight.
Groom for the Conjugation of Church and State
Finger of Birth-Strangled Babe: Leading the developed world in maternal and infant mortality, the ‘Domestic Supply of Infants’* comes to market. The maternal death rate of black women is four to seventeen times greater than that of white women. *See Alito’s own footnotes.
Habitus: General constitution, socially-ingrained habits, skills and dispositions. The physiognomy of privilege.
Sweet Nothings: ‘There’s nothing over you sweet’ said Clarence to Ginni. ‘There’s no oversight board or rulebook for you, best friend’ said Ginni to Clarence. To each other they whispered ‘We Shall Overturn Someday.’
Silvered in the Moon’s Eclipse: Bats are not blind and can see even in the dimmest light. Justice is not either.
In the Bag: 51% of Amicus curiae (“friend-of-the-court”) briefs calling for an end to the Federal abortion right are linked to Ginni Thomas.
What’s on the Shadow Docket Tonight?: Wool of Bat and Owlet’s wing. In recent years, the court has increasingly abused the ”shadow docket” emergency process to take action on substantive issues, without live public deliberation and often at night.
Textualist: Men are not angels if they parse their words right. The Devil is also in the footnotes.
Sweltered Venom Sleeping Not: Some vipers hunt by night and some by day.
115 A.D. Birthing stool detail on the right). Another 12th century ecclesiastical support system for those in labor.
Supermajority Elephant’s Foot Stool: CEO and Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre, who killed an endangered Botswanan savannah elephant, sways the Supreme Court with right-wing dark-money amicus briefs and offerings.
Dusky: The conservative justices wouldn’t protect the endangered Dusky Gopher Frog’s critical habitat, essential for the amphibian’s preservation.
Tatarus Terraces: It would take more than nine days for the gavel to fall from earth into the wide abyss of the underworld, Tararus – the gloomy part of Hades.
Work in progress
Charcoal, conte, ink, gouache on mulberry paper, 108 x 96 inches
Ink on paper, 50 x 55 inches
Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito, Amy Coney Barrett, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. miscarrying justice.
Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Roberts: facing unplanned, unhoped for, and unforeseen consequences…
Justice Clarence Thomas administering ‘anesthetic’
An emotionally overwhelmed Clarence Thomas
An ‘impartial’ Justice Alito…
The limited scope of Justice Amy Coney Barrett
Justices trying to return the baby to the womb - “whose idea was this?”