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"TOOL OF DISSENT" HOLOGRAPHIC LIGHT SPECTRUM PAPER....... "I Hear That It Is Charged Against Me That I Sought To Destroy Institutions"...... -Walt Whitman. Holographic Light Spectrum Edition: 12 / Signed, Numbered On Back,. Print Dimensions: 20” W x 30" H. Print Substrate: Heavy Stock, Holographic Reflective Chrome Archival Paper With Polymer Coating. Hand-Crafted Deckle Edged Paper. Hand Touched Spraypaint Details. Print Materials: Archival Acrylic Ink, Montana Spraypaint, and Etched In Ink Signature. Each print comes with a signed COA. This print has a highly reflective holographic metallic surface with glossy black. Each signature was etched into the wet ink creating textures in the inks surface. I also blasted with a fatcap a hand spraypainted color accent on top of the wet ink that created an interesting reaction that created a splattering bumbling texture. This holographic light spectrum edition is definitely my favorite out of these editions. Beautiful reflections in person, the print shifts to every color imaginable. ARTIST'S STATEMENT:. -This serigraph was inspired by a Walt Whitman poem. Black and silver is a powerful statement on it's own especially when written in spraypaint. So also is using the printing process as a form of communication. So I began searching for poems, quotes and statements, nothing in particular other than something that felt current or right with these fast paced times. Finally I stumbled on to this Walt Whitman poem and the first sentence really stuck with me. This sentence sets up the conflict between the structure of institutions and ourselves. There is no shortage of dissent or debate lately especially within the urban power structures and the greater systems as a whole. If these institutions exist or not exist it is still the bond of people of like minds that hold an idea together. Writing a poem in the late 19th century was just as potent of an artistic tool of dissent as writing on walls is today in the new millennia. The idea of dissent is as ancient as the first power structures, so is using art as the tool of dissent.