Introducing – Subject=Tension
In this post you’ll find:
- A little bit about Subject=Tension
- The posters in the series.
- Information on how to buy some art, help out an artist or a cause.
- Why Subject=Tension?
A little bit about Subject=Tension
This is a series of posters designed by local artists based on text prompts from me. I provide them a series of text prompts around a particular subject. They respond with their visual ideas. Sometimes the text changes. Sometimes the visuals change. What’s left is the poster.
This is about creating, helping artists, and raising the profile of some ideas and causes close to my heart.
There’s much more information on the Subject=Tension website. (and a much nicer logo)
The Series
“Though I Walk Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Will Fear No Evil
For When I Die My Body Will Become One With the Earth That Raised Me and My Spirit Will Become One With the Sky That I Love”
Proceeds go to the visual artist, to the Community Drink and Food Fund at Earth’s Ecorefillery, and to keep the project going.
“His heart is not as empty
as his pockets
his stomach
his tomorrow”
Proceeds go to the visual artist and toward the Edmonton Affordable Housing Maintenance Fund https://ecf.ca/funds/edmonton-affordable-housing-maintenance-fund/
“I Am. You Are. We Are. Consciousness. Embodied. At a Specific Historical Time. In a Specific Historical Place. That We Have The Power To Change.”
Proceeds (net of shipping and printing) are split 50/50: 50% goes to the visual artist, and 50% goes to the Coalition for Justice and Human Rights https://www.coalition4jhr.org/
“That Which Gives Us Power Creates Us”
***50% of all sales net of shipping and printing goes to the visual artist.
“As You Walk the Face of the Earth, Be Aware Whose Footsteps You Follow”
All proceeds net of shipping and printing go the Edmonton Community Papaschase Endowment Fund, established to support the Papaschase First Nation. At their request, the fund is currently providing scholarships to Indigenous students in Edmonton with preference given to those who can establish descendancy from the Papaschase First Nation.
Follow the link to find out more, buy a poster or make a donation if you can. Every dollar helps.
Why Subject=Tension?
A fuller explanation lives on the About page of the Subject=Tension website, but the short version is:
We are told what to think and what to value about other people and the world all the time.
If you, like me, question what you’re told about other people, and how to find value in your own life, then there’s tension; the tension between being a subject of someone else, and being free to determine what’s right and wrong on your own.