THE JAGUAR MANIFESTO
The conquistadors invaded middle and Latin America in the 16th century and over the next few centuries, in the pursuit of gold, 70 million Indians perished, largely from deliberate biological warfare. Despite the 17 million people killed in post WWII interventions we continue to suffer from the same deluded moralistic relativism, which spearheaded this terrorist disaster as it did the earlier crusades. This morality extols the superiority of western civilization and religion. The worst offenders do not include in their moral judgments the only possible claim to a superior system of thought –modern science; indeed they frequently reject its findings. In these prints the jaguar is used as a symbol south American Indian religion. He continues his reverse colonization invading western (and Eastern) modes of thought and religion. In particular he mounts an attack on St. Peters the epicenter of Roman Catholic imperialism, corruption and abuse.These light and dark-hearted prints are influenced by Goya, Breton, Dali, Man Ray, Magritte, Bunuel, Klee, Picasso Daumier, Hogarth, Hockney, Joseph Heller, Hitchens, Swift, Mark Twain, Bunyan, Thomas Pynchon,P.S. I love you too: Chapman Brothers, Ffeiffer, Thurber, Nathaniel West, Apocalypse Now, Kurt Vonnegut, Belloc and the Beatles.This stream of consciousness channels the flow and association of ideas of the various influences scattered in the corners of my mind.
The conquistadors invaded middle and Latin America in the 16th century and over the next few centuries, in the pursuit of gold, 70 million Indians perished, largely from deliberate biological warfare. Despite the 17 million people killed in post WWII interventions we continue to suffer from the same deluded moralistic relativism, which spearheaded this terrorist disaster as it did the earlier crusades. This morality extols the superiority of western civilization and religion. The worst offenders do not include in their moral judgments the only possible claim to a superior system of thought –modern science; indeed they frequently reject its findings. In these prints the jaguar is used as a symbol south American Indian religion. He continues his reverse colonization invading western (and Eastern) modes of thought and religion. In particular he mounts an attack on St. Peters the epicenter of Roman Catholic imperialism, corruption and abuse.These light and dark-hearted prints are influenced by Goya, Breton, Dali, Man Ray, Magritte, Bunuel, Klee, Picasso Daumier, Hogarth, Hockney, Joseph Heller, Hitchens, Swift, Mark Twain, Bunyan, Thomas Pynchon,P.S. I love you too: Chapman Brothers, Ffeiffer, Thurber, Nathaniel West, Apocalypse Now, Kurt Vonnegut, Belloc and the Beatles.This stream of consciousness channels the flow and association of ideas of the various influences scattered in the corners of my mind.