Security by Art Hazelwood

Security by Art Hazelwood

Security

Art Hazelwood

Title

Security

 
Artist

Art Hazelwood

  1961 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
2011  
Technique
color screenprint 
Image Size
19 3/8 x 15 3/4" image (out of square) 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right 
Edition Size
4 of 15  
Annotations
pencil titled and dated 
Reference
 
Paper
antique-white Lenox wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
ARHA169 
Price
SOLD
Description

Printmaker, teacher, social commentator and political activist Art Hazelwood depicts Uncle Sam, peeking over a high wall with coiled barbed wire, watching family farmers working their meager crop. Though done in 2011 the subject is one of the major points of contention in today's politic climate.

The image brings to mind Benjamin Franklin's warning from 1755: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Also apropos to this image is Franklin's observation of 1728: "If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."