For me, one of the highest attributes of art is its ability to address political issues and its potential to bring about a more just and compassionate world. Certainly these issues change over time, but the fight for equality for all people is a worthy and lofty goal.
While the media greatly influences societal shifts, even in a “democratic” country, many worthy causes are not brought to the public’s attention. The women’s outcry for equality in Iran which is the subject for My Stealthy Freedom seems to have “slipped through the cracks.” It was not until it became ugly, with acid being thrown in women’s faces and them ending up in the hospital, that thousands of Irani citizens, women and men alike, taking to the streets to protest, and our national media finally began to cover this story.
A percentage of the sales of these paintings is contributed to Amnesty International.
While the media greatly influences societal shifts, even in a “democratic” country, many worthy causes are not brought to the public’s attention. The women’s outcry for equality in Iran which is the subject for My Stealthy Freedom seems to have “slipped through the cracks.” It was not until it became ugly, with acid being thrown in women’s faces and them ending up in the hospital, that thousands of Irani citizens, women and men alike, taking to the streets to protest, and our national media finally began to cover this story.
A percentage of the sales of these paintings is contributed to Amnesty International.
