It seems that I am no longer stuck in that idle complacent gear of neutrality. I have been thinking for days and adding to an ever growing collection of notes and musings. I have plugged back in to something undefinable, while disengaging from the 24 second flashes that had lulled me into this state of idleness.

I had time today and spent it sitting around thinking about what I was going to ‘make’ today. Being the good little robot that I am I was staring at Twitter and found this.

I read a mind-boggling article on Huffington Post about a 15 year old girl ‘accidentally’ being deported. How does such a think happen? I googled and kept reading and kept scratching my head.

Here is the finished unfinished painting of J. Turner based on the photograph that was published in the article. I left her form rough and very painterly, leaving blank spots on the canvas, knowing that the reality of this story is that, it is NOT over.  I have probably come up with a thousand questions about how this entire incident could have taken place and still I come to one conclusion, the system is broken. If our government is listening to the lie of a 15 year old girl and believes it enough to deport her to Columbia, things have to change!

There is an obvious failure in how she was initially picked up, documented, put through court proceedings, allowed a passport as a Columbian citizen, regardless of whether she spoke up or not or thought this adventure as a runaway teen might be ‘eye-opening’, something went horribly wrong.

WHAT INSTIGATED THIS?

WHAT I AM LISTENING TO: the clash, outernational, the velvet underground

WHAT I AM READING: the corrections by j. franzen, bukowski, twitter

WHO IS INSPIRING ME: valiant gallagher