The Raft of George W Bush.

[alfredo]

http://www.edelmangallery.com/witkin33.htm





One hundred and fifty people, including one woman, were herded into the slippery beams. So closely were the people huddled together that it was impossible to move a single step. Mutiny, murder, cannibalism and madness followed. After fifteen days, only fifteen survived.

The people on the Medusa were victims of class struggle. The people on the Raft of George Bush-his party and regime-are the victims of their own rationale, their conservative elitism, their hunger for political and social power and their unilateral military ambitions. It took a very sick group of people to dream up a phony war from the tragedy of 9/11, against a country which had nothing to do with 9/11.

In my photograph, I want to show the leaders of this regime as royalty without clothes. As the fools they really are.

[Octafish]

1. Genius!

Outstanding in every way.

The (now former) president is seen wearing a McDonalds gold paper crown. His despair is the result of a mind distorted by extremism. By the lies, torture, pain and death he has caused. He is the Lear of all inept politicians. He holds the naked body of "Condi Rice". She is his ideal black woman. His brain-dead muse. Secretary of Defense "Rummy" lies face down nearby, holding his glasses, wrapped in a flag of the nation. Former Secretary of State Powell is pictured dressed only in military epaulets holding the "proof" he presented at the United Nations for justification for the war against Iraq. The vice-president and his wife are shown as an operatic star and diva straining to proselytize their doctrines in song. Barbara Bush is tied to a mast. She holds a
sun-reflector under her chin-representing her joy in basking in the sunlight of power yet always looking like "The Quaker Oats Man". Near her is a conservative minister trying to hang himself while a sailor performs fellatio on him. Finally, an African American waves the flag of his mother country as he sights the Medusa's survivors, a Chinese junk and a Space Ship.

PS: I kicked and it stayed at "0." Perhaps cowards and shills don't like the subject matter.

[alfredo]

2. Google him to see other works. The Kiss is one of his

more famous works. They are dissected heads.




Born 1939 in Brooklyn, from a catholic mother and a jewish father.
At the age of 6, witnesses a car accident, during which the severed head
of a little girl rolls to his feet.

From 1961, studies sculpture at Cooper Union, New York City.
Works as a photographer in the Army.
Travels to India.

1976 - 77 : studies photography at the University of Albuquerque,
while earning his living as a waiter.

Has never done commercial or press photography.
Lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.