SWD 29

Kafka visits to glimpse bigot President Trump

Franz Kafka visits from the Other World to glimpse the bigoted American President, Donald Trump. On Sept. 15, 2018, the President ordered an investiggation of how Kafka entered U.S. pictorial space and picture plane without a visa.

Art: 2018
Media: Ink, pencil, gouache, colored pencil.
Framed, 22 inches H x 32 W.
The drawing includes several drawing fragments from the (2010 disassembled) mixed media artwork, Homage to Pawiak Prison, Warsaw, 1984.

Franz Kafka’s novel Metamorphosis, a psychological horror of-the-self, was first published 1915. It was one of the most celebrated books of the 20th century in western countries. Kafka was born near Prague on July 3, 1883. He was of the same generation as this artist’s maternal grandparents, who were born around 1881-2. His parents were Jewish, German-speaking. In Austria at age 40 in 1923, Kafka died from illnesses surrounding his having tuberculosis.

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Trump's bigotry and intolerance is inexhaustible and well- documented. Among others: His 'birther' race - hate campaign against all African-Americans; his intolerance of bigotry Mexicans, Central Americans, Puerto Ricans and all Hispanic-Americans; his use of a classic anti-Semitic image, with a tweeted meme showing Mrs Clinton with money and a Star of David with text Most Corrupt Candidate Ever!; his intolerance against all Muslims and of Arabs; his having mocked a disabled NY Times reporter;  his pathological nearly daily lying; his attacks on the media and on individual journalists and his claims that global climate disruption is a hoax.

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An op-ed penned by Segan on Trump’s race-hate ‘birther’ campaign: “President Donald Trump’s ‘birther’ campaign needs to be renounced with an apology.” Real Change newspaper, Seattle, Sept. 6 – 12 issue, 2017. (Real Change is a non-profit in Seattle that advocates for and aids the homeless).

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Seattle-based artist and tolerance educator Akiva K. Segan, M.F.A., is best known as the creator of the Under the Wings art series and the Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series. The Under the Wings series, underway since 1991, portrays murdered victims of the Nazis and Fascists in Europe, 1933-45, offering audiences a restoration of dignity in memory of the victims. The Under the Wings series has 64 works completed, including 10 monumental mosaic-drawing combos. Two drawings are in progress, summer 2018.

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The Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series, begun 2003, has 28 drawings completed as of summer 2018.

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With exhibits, power-point classes and his Drawing-for-Healing workshop, he guest facilitates tolerance education with art in art museums/galleries, schools, colleges/universities, community centers and other venues in the U.S. and other countries. He has guest taught throughout the U.S., in Britain and Israel.

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His artworks are in corporate; art gallery/art museum; natural history museum; institutional; library; college and university;  and house-of-worship collections in Austria, France, Hungary, Israel, the U.S. and the UK. 

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(long) Kafka visits US picture plane, glimpses bigot US president Trump (framed) © A K Segan

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