"All nationalists have the power of not seeing resemblances between
similar sets of facts. A British Tory will defend self-determination in
Europe and oppose it in India with no feeling of inconsistency. Actions
are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to
who does them, and there is almost no kind of outrage — torture, the use
of hostages, forced labour, mass deportations, imprisonment without
trial, forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians — which does not
change its moral colour when it is committed by 'our' side. The
nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his
own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about
them."
-- George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
-- George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism
 Certain Inalienable Rights - 17" x 9" - Photoshop, Wacom - 2011 It's almost astounding how rapidly our country replicated and expanded exactly the abusive power structures that it was founded in opposition to.*  Running Feet - 17.5" x 8" - Photoshop, Wacom - 2010 Barefoot running is one of the most freeing and empowering experiences I think a person can have. It's certainly true of me. I tried to capture the speed, weightlessness, and exuberance of it in this piece.* | About Luke Luke Radl attended the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art in 2006. While attending he received the Norman Maurer Memorial Scholarship (2007) and the MADA DesignFrederico
Gonzales Memorial Scholarship (2008) for my artwork. As am a full-time
freelance commercial artist and web designer, Luke recently featured in
COOL’s Lowell arts anthology Young Angel Midnight.Current clients include Dark Horse Comics, Onshore Productions, Citizen Radio, and Atlas Incognita.
Past clients include The Attractive Arts, Fantasy Flight Games, Arcana Comics, BirthdayShoes.com, House Haunters and private commissions. Web design clients include We’re Not Broke, Citizen Radio, The Progressive Playbook, The Attractive Arts, Jonathan Cox Photography, and Mosaic Sciences. Want more from Luke Radl? Website! http://www.lukeradl.com Blog! http://www.lukeradl.com/blog/ Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/luke.radl Progressive Playbook |  American Exceptionalism - 15" x 23" - Photoshop, Wacom - 2011 In Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen, Dr. Manhattan, a god-like figure, strolls nonchalantly through an alternate 1960's Vietnam obliterating fleeing peasants on behalf of the stars and stripes. Here, I've simply made an already poignant metaphor explicit. Lest there be any doubts: violence employed for economic dominance, callous indifference, and self-aggrandizing double-think are wholly bipartisan, ongoing endeavors. |