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| When the religious right campaigned to repeal the right of California gays and lesbians to marry, I was silent. It's not that I didn't care or was uninterested...I just didn't care enough to get involved. I don't ever see myself getting married, so I did not join the fight. That was a mistake. So while I did not voice my opinions or feel alarmed at the potential for California voters to feel strongly enough about gay marriage to amend the state constitution, I do have a really short fuse when people take their religious dogma out of their respective churches and expect everyone else to adopt it. I get even more impatient with the "it's the way it's always been" argument. I mean, get real. If we lived by the way it's always been, we'd still believe in slavery and child labor. This art piece is my late entry into the argument and an apology for my earlier silence. On December 5th, 2008 when I first envisioned the creation of this piece, I sent an email to the ProtectMarriage group, inquiring where I might obtain some YesOn8 lawn signs. Here's the text of that email: Me: "Hi. I need some YesOn8 lawn signs. Can you tell me where I could get them?" The ProtectMarriage folks reply: "Your best option would be visiting your local church. They might have some leftover from the campaign." Powerful message, I think. |
| The Art: California Proposition 8 |
| Words of the Stiffnecked People Exodus 32:9 --- This art piece is comprised of 250 wooden blocks, some wrapped with Yes on 8 propaganda and others wrapped in biblical text. They are arranged in a chronological and topographical order, beginning with a miniature Bible in the center and yellow blocks rising out of the chaos and winding their way through a sea of scripture. I took the words of the fundamentalists and re-printed them on Yes on 8 yard signs and bumper stickers. I gathered the quotes, statistics, history, and headlines and re-arranged them on yellow and blue Protect Marriage material...and then wrapped the remaining blocks with selected pages torn from the Bible and Book of Mormon. For more detailed pics, just click on the tabs to the left. |
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| Sacramento Pride event on June 20th, 2009, courtesy of the YesOnGayMarriage organization. |
| The Prop 8 piece was on display at the 2009 Sacramento Gay Pride event, courtesy of the YesOnGayMarriage organization. Then it went to the Coalition for Repeal of Prop 8 conference in San Francisco on August 29th, 2009. Then it was on display at the California State Employee's convention in Los Angeles over Labor Day, courtesy of the SEIU Human and Civil Rights committee. It then went to San Francisco for a one day show at the San Francisco LGBT Center on October 10, 2009. On October 26th 2009, it went to a celebrity concert at the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts for the Defying Inequality benefit. Where will it go next???? Perhaps it will soon become obsolete...?....One can only hope. If anyone would like to display the piece, either for a fund raiser or gallery, just let me know. It's available to travel. |
| Click on any photo to open in a new window and larger size. |
| The YouTube video of my Prop8 art is one of the coolest things I've ever done. Watch it here: Scott Terry's PropH8 YouTube video |