250 Years Shot to Hell. Poster.

On March 5, 1770, British soldiers fired into a taunting crowd on King Street in Boston, Massachusetts, killing five colonists -- the Boston Massacre. Artist Larry Rivers (1923-2002) created a screen print and mixed media piece called Some (Visual) After Thoughts on the Boston Massacre: Redcoats (1970). I saw it in an exhibit at the Boston Public Library the week after Renee Goode was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. The next week, Alex Pretti was killed.

That's when I started making this piece.

It's happening again. Trump's private army is murdering American citizens. 250 years later and we are fighting this war again. Happy Birthday to us.

The original painting is a collage with handmade mono-prints of acrylic paint on rice paper. Each piece is torn and adhered to a cradled board that is 16" x 20". The words in the faces of the the soldiers come from the book My Life in Court by Louis Nizer who was a prominent trial attorney and who influenced policy discussions regarding postwar Germany.

The actual size of the poster you are buying is 11" x 17".

The poster you see me holding in the third picture was printed on my home printer, on four 11" x 17" pages that I aligned and glued together on the cardboard.

We are in this together.