I don’t have a title for this blog. I don’t even want to be writing this entry. But the reality is my drawing “Alignment Problem” is hanging just a few blocks from where today’s fourth of July shooting occurred. And I hope member’s of the community will look at alignment problem and ponder what we can do to stop our world from becoming a dystopia for our children. When I made alignment problem I was angry. It was late winter/early spring 2021. With vaccines being distributed at a rapid pace all the talk was about “returning to normal”. But what is “normal” and why was everyone so eager to go back to it? Pre-pandemic our planet was already on the edge of a climate catastrophe with increasing inequality and many youth suffering from mental health issues. So I wondered why nobody saw an opportunity once the world stopped to make systematic changes, to imagine and reinvent a future that would not be the dystopic future we clearly seemed headed for. And here we are. Rather than Alignment Problem being a predictor of what was to come if we did not re-align our systems it has become a mirror.
Alignment Problem is going to hang at The Art Center in Highland Park for another few weeks. It is a mirror of where we are today. My heart breaks for our country and for the Highland Park community. I am tired of this. I am angry!!!