Beyond the Headlines — Hot Button Gallery

"Democracy Was Too Much Work"

A swing set, two seesaws, a lounge chair, monkey bars, a merry-go-round and a Maypole: Constructed from memorial flags taken from the local veterans' cemetery

THE FIRST and LAST KITE RACE of the ANTI-SCIENCE SOCIETY

THE MALE GAZE: INDEX OF USEABLE PARTS

A road map for the omnipresent males who critique us no matter what our age or availability.

THE PUZZLE

\"The war is won, but the peace is not.\" Albert Einstein

America Nears the Boiling Point

The story of a frog in a kettle of boiling water is a metaphor for human nature — we ignore the signs of danger until it's too late.

Angelfish Snake

Bedpan

Blasphemy

Burning My Dreams and the Baggage They Left Behind

Capitalism for the 99% / Capitalism for the 1%

Bringing home the bacon. Capitalism for the 1%---Selling you the frying pan, the house, the car, the debt, and the American Dream.

Cave Drawing of Human History

From fists to clubs to swords to guns, to THE BOMB

Country vs. City

Rural America has higher rates, per capita, of gun violence, opioid drug abuse, drug-dealing arrests, child abuse, domestic violence, maternal mortality, Medicare and welfare recipients, suicide, unemployment, and incarceration

Escape From Futility

EXODUS FROM EARTH: The Last Crusade (Revised Analysis)

Leaving behind a trail of destruction, America's Space Force leads the search for a new Land of the Free.

FEVER

FLY BUTTERFLY FLY

FLYING JELLYFISH

GEESE RETURNING TO CANADA after the election

GRUMPY DONALD

Posing for his mug shot (and official POTUS portrait)

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

Howard University Commencement, 1985

IT WOULDN’T BE AN ART GALLERY WITHOUT A BREAST ON DISPLAY

LOST AT SEA: the SHI(NING) CITY ON A HILL

In spite of our flaws, we became a beacon of hope for democracy, a lighthouse to the world. Now we drift unmoored and rudderless, hoping for a rescue which can only come from ourselves.

ME, 1978–1985

MIXED MESSAGE

MOUNT FLUSHMORE

A river of filth flows from a man elevated to the peak of power elected by Americans unable to distinguish between government and theater, ideals and idols, empathy and antipathy, bravery and bullying, brilliance and bullshit, or patriots and traitors.