January 19, 2006
The Blinds: Layout Study For A Portable Border
The Blinds: Layout Study For A Portable Border, digital net art by Jerome du Bois, 2006. All rights reserved. Do not reproduce in any form. Here is a bigger version.
Who is my neighbor?
--Luke 10:25-37.
by Jerome du Bois
I conceived this piece not long after September 11, 2001, when my tolerance went South, and stayed there, and should, until the Islamist sword is buried forever, and Islam leashed to reason.
Besides branding Muslims the New Boors, since they have tainted the whole idea of Neighbor, the piece consciously parodies Islamic airs, such as the use of green --nobody owns green-- and the exaggerated, elongated letters, and the overall edged-weapon look.
I have set the real-life version aside for now, though I've cut out a lot of the letters, and here is a shot of the drawing that will be cut into strips for the background of the final real-world piece.
A Portable Border would be a seven-foot-high sculpture resembling a picket fence, with the pickets made of the letters standing back-to back with each other. Shiny white letters with green borders, standing in the middle of the floor. On one side: NEIGHBOR. On the other: NEWBOOR.
In the drawing above, bright green letters spell out, under NEIGHBOR, the word LIFESTORY. Used to be we trusted people; we told our stories over the back fence. Muslims have taqiyya, meaning they can LIE FROSTY anytime, anyplace, to advance their NEWBOOR religion.
And for those getting here late for Bible study, your neighbor is the one who stands before you on the same solid honest ground, eye to eye, equals.
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