I'm using  an odd re-creation of Picasso's, "Weeping Woman: here. His original Weeping Woman was from his very famous, "Guernica,"  the face of the woman on the far left, holding a dead or dying child.  He went on to paint this same face several times over.  I am using it here, with not-so-subtle changes, as a portrait of a modern american woman.  She has an earring like I would wear and dons red-hat-society hat and clothing.  The rest of the painting is about  todays' society which she weeps over.  The sun sets unrealistically on a Purple mountain of majesty, also unrealistic. A huge flag pole had broken over a school setting which only points to hard colors, and figures of small shooters to the far right. In the lower edge a large chalkboard declares for her, over a school, and again over an invitation to  an Iraq war scene, camaflauge of mountains.

 

 

 

 

 

This piece lables numerous government programs, agencies, events, names  which could be understood as "mind control" policies. Underneath are sribbles of the red and blue, and flourescent white stars. The words are in oil pastels and crayon, roughly written or printed, different  sizes and colors.  The overall effect is "messy" and hard to read.

 

At center, above the underlying words in blue,"Mind Control"  are the smaller words in red, "It's hard to see what is true." With the Stars and the rest, --a bit of illusion works -- it is easy to miss on or another element or set of words, hence the title.

 

48x48" on recycled construction board.