One could read “double trouble” in this enormous example of graffiti, sprayed with bold precision on a walkway wall under an overpass in Vienna: both #FTP (fuck the police) and #ACAB (all cops are bastards/bad)—aka, cops always bring trouble, they don’t protect or defend people from it. And that’s a good and legit read, pointing in two acronyms or seven letters to the countless reasons why police must be abolished. Reform just paints a lighter shade of blue on the inherent brutality of policing.

Yet as a prefigurative-minded anarchist—and thus, it should go without saying, abolitionist—I feel it’s our task to always offer our own, nonhierarchical double trouble—the good kind of trouble aimed at shaking up this death machine of a social order via social critiques and social visions. That is, not merely asserting what we’re against (here, cops) but also, always, concurrently, proclaiming and especially experimenting with what we’re for (in this case, a world without police).

So in this #ArtOfResistance, I see the double trouble of a liberatory counternarrative: #FreeThePeople (FTP) and #AutonomousCommunitiesAreBeautiful (ACAB). I see glimpses across this imperiled planet—of which we humans are only one small (yet too often dangerous) part/guest—of how forms of freedom and self-governance, even in what might seem modest ways, are put into practice every day, including and especially these days, in using solidarity as a weapon (our best one) against the occupying, often militarized police forces trying to control too many cities and lands around the globe.

#Lineart WIP for the #Teegarden #TTRPG #playmat — the #Azulians, #Gizmos, and baseline humans playing the #tabletop version of their own #comic inside the comic. The med bay doubles as both a game room and a therapy session. Meta? Absolutely. Canon? Even moreso. #LineartWIP #ComicArt #SciFiArt #art

#manga #ArtProcess #ComicIllustration #GraphicNovel #ArtOfResistance #PostHumanism #DrawingInProgress #WeirdInternet #ArtistOnInstagram #IndieTTRPG

This piece pulls no punches. A raw, mixed-media collage that blends street art, graffiti, and punk aesthetics into a bold call for justice. It’s loud, unapologetic, and meant to provoke. Art can be messy, dangerous, and absolutely necessary.

#ContemporaryArt #CollageArt #MixedMedia #StreetArt #PoliticalArt #FeministArt #ActivistArt #PunkArt #PopSurrealism #CounterCulture #BoldArt #RadicalArt #VisualProtest #AvantGarde #SubversiveArt #ArtWithMessage #RawArt #EdgyArt #ArtOfResistance #GraffitiArt

SNEAK PEEK: Tomorrow’s Afternoon Art Critic

We're heading to Chiapas.

Not to a museum — to a wall, a brush, a hand.
Zapatista muralism isn't decoration.
It's declaration.

"530 años y no nos conquistaron"
530 years and they didn't conquer us.
Because we exist through resistance.

Tomorrow: we talk revolutionary art that serves, teaches, defends.
🎨✊🏽🔥

#AfternoonArtCritic #Zapatismo #ZapanteraNegra #EZLN #Muralismo #ArtOfResistance

Rainy-day fun: Finish turning an old essay from an equally old anthology into a zine, email the PDF to a local copy shop always lively and crowded with fellow Jews (albeit unlike me, Hasidic ones), get the chatty person behind the counter to print out one copy on bright paper, commiserate with them after they accidentally stab their own finger with one of the two staples they were kindly adding to the zine’s spine, walk outside during a break in the weather yet with ominous clouds hovering above (doesn’t every day feel ominous of late, even if sunny?), and then with zine and phone camera in hand, wander around before the raindrops start again looking for imaginative spots to take photos of said zine, and then share a sampling of them here, noticing how the same exact zine looks slightly different shades of lime-ish green in different settings.

Which gets at some of what this new (one) zine of mine, “Reappropriate the Imagination!” gets at, even if in a dated way. The #ArtOfResistance is about seeing the world at cross-purposes, as social critics, and letting our flights of fancy take us to otherworldly places, as social visionaries—albeit in my case today, in the most modest of ways via a little zine that let me break free for an hour from the dreariness of these times.

And who knows? Maybe my art—writing—bound up in these 24 pages designed by me (with striking cover art by @synecdocheberlin), will get you thinking at cross-purposes about your own anarchist(ic) art practices and point you in visionary directions. For as fascism redraws everything in its own false and cruel image, rebellious art in the most expansive sense has an enormous role to play in pushing open windows to let in the light of truth and humanness, among so many others things that can crack the edifice that fascism stands on, reminding people of life-giving possibilities and their own creative agency to transform the social conditions.

Night and rain are falling in equal measure now, and I have unfun tasks to do. But there’s one more fun thing here: share the readable and print-ready versions (generously made into PDFs by @_hey_casandra_ from my layout).

DM me your email for the PDFs!