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Artworks
Corita Kent
i'm glad i can feel pain, 1969screenprint58,4 x 30,5 cm / 23 x 12 in (unframed)
66 x 37,7 x 4 cm / 26 x 14.8 x 1.5 in (framed)Transcribed Text: ...Kennedy is dead. Fabrics can be torn & shredded and fall apart. Social fabrics are the only thing that hold us together. This is a time to be...Transcribed Text:
...Kennedy is dead. Fabrics can be torn & shredded and fall apart. Social fabrics
are the only thing that hold us together. This is a time to be strong. The
national tendency under such devastating displays of violence is to collapse. I
am afraid that a collapse would engender relapse, relapse into violence triggered
by despair. I’m trying to be strong. I’m trying to direct all my energies to
positive things. Kennedy believed in our people. We have to trust ourselves. We
are living, therefore we have to give ourselves to life. So many living people
are dead. So many people have commited mental suicide. People are so afraid. I
don’t believe we were born to be afraid. This is something man has created by and
for himself, probably unconsciously. Maybe this is the problem, man hasn’t been
facing choices and consciously making a choice---really choosing, but instead he
has been letting other forces outside of himself control him and he isn’t even
aware that the he in him is dead perhaps murdered. When someone as influential as
Kennedy is killed it makes people every where face the reality that it takes guts
and courage to be human and to be what you are and believe what you are. Kennedy
was a leader who could help people do this. He was helping the establishment
understand minority groups. He was helping us understand what it means to be
human and that each individual is an intergral part of the social fabric. Now his
voice has been silenced but not really just physically. We all have to find our
voice and the medium through which we can make it be heard...We all have a voice
and we all have to listen. I’m very upset but I’m glad I can feel pain.
Love, (a student)
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