Print Drop

The Print goes live at 12pm Central Standard Time on Thursday MAY 22 (tomorrow)

Here is the link! It’ll be empty until noon hits! There are only 35 prints available - all signed and numbered -

Thank YOU!

PS

the artist statement is here: warning, it was in the last issue as well and I was in a pretty serious mood when I wrote it - I probably could have made it shorter or added more self deprecating jokes. Love yall, thank you again for subscribing.

The Apology of Socrates reimagines the death of the philosopher not as a historical reenactment, but as a surreal spectacle. I wanted to create a visual myth—a fever dream—where Socrates becomes a spectral, many-eyed figure planning to drink hemlock with the guards below. The figures receiving the cup are armored and complicit, perhaps unaware that they too will fall to the poison.   Around them, ruined columns and mournful ghosts form a collapsing civic stage, suggesting the decay of democratic ideals. It’s an image meant to feel chaotic and ceremonial at once, like a martyrdom staged inside a haunted amphitheater.

This work emerged in response to growing political authoritarianism and the accompanying pressure on artists to self-censor. I wanted The Apology of Socrates to lean into the absurdity and spectacle of resistance—a theatrical lament for the vanishing space of where I felt my voice mattered.   The piece comes from asking myself what survival means if at the cost how we express ourselves.  This feels like a moment where dissent is increasingly penalized and cultural speech is treated as, if not dangerous, financially unwise, this piece calls back to an ancient refusal to obey—an offering to those who still speak in their own manner.