Tuesday, October 10, 2006

The power to change things


So I'm finally starting a new blog. I had one on Fotolog (www.fotolog.com/uakari), but stopped posting after a while. Let me start fresh here, with new artwork and reflections.
I drew this little boy yesterday during a lecture. The speaker was talking about a wall painted in orange-juice-vomit color. He told someone who was in charge how ugly that was, and they repainted it. We have power to change things.
Right now, my mind is in Sudan. A genocide is going on right now. We criticize the people who ignored the Holocaust while we're doing exactly the same thing. We did it with Rwanda, and we're doing it again with Sudan. Hundreds of thousands of people have already been killed, and the Western world has turned its face away. You ask me why? Because the big money is in the Middle East. Africa does not pay off.
Bringing it back to the power to change things, I've been thinking of ways I could change things here, even if it is something small. I'm open to ideas and suggestions.

3 Comments:

Blogger sophan said...

this one is awesome. nice mix of type. glad your on blogspot now. welcome to the club.

12:00 AM  
Blogger Jessica Kim - 지혜 씨 said...

Ebaa~! Dabi oppa e suas obras estão de volta!! Estava com saudades!

7:44 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Hallo Uakari :}

I love your drawings!
I thnk it'd be great to do something arts-based to increase awareness of what's happening in sudan!

8:06 PM  

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