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Michael
Hernandez de Luna
USA
I
made two new works with this idea in mind, the idea of Fatherland / Motherland.
I think my references to this idea fall in the several categories of War,
Crime, and Religion. However in my culture, being Mexican and Mexico,
the birth place ot my parents this idea falls to a saying: mi tierra /
My Land. So, I choose my place - Chicago. I think the most popular event
in Chicago history might be awarded to Mr. Al Capone and his gangland
style era ot: Bootlegging, Kidnapping, Murder, Prostitution, Gambling,
and Extortion. To this day when ever I'm on holidays abroad, someone always
refers to my place In a mime performance of a machine gun shooting movement
while annunciating "Shee-Ka- go"... The most recent event falls in the
category of religion, this is the fail of of a Christian icon the Reverend
Jessie Jackson, Working under the A-frame of God and morality... And just
another man with the same weaknesses as man - WOMAN. My stamp sheet captures
this love triangle, as a breakdown of moral ideology of a irreverent man
and a moral upset of the contradictions of sermons: ADULTERY and creation
of the bastard child. We must remember, he was Bill Clinton's spiritual
advisor.