"You have a city like Baltimore, where they'll put up a publicly-sponsored mural showing children of all colors holding hands and healing the earth--this bears no relation to the reality, says nothing about the real mechanics of life in that city. So I take a bare gray wall next to a payday loan office and put Levi's face there in bright green--suddenly you get an immediate sense of cause and effect, the whole cycle portrayed simply and in proximity to both ends. It's like a diagnostic art, maybe."
--Ett. Vi., Hope for the Hopeless, p. 18
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