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Our Joy Be Free

2009, color pencil on paper, 40 x 32 inches
Our Joy Be Free, 2009
Doug Crocco, Our Joy Be Free, 2009, color pencil on paper, 40 x 32 inches

An emblem for a demand that no political program has ever been able to deliver. Joy is not a policy, which is precisely why it belongs in this grammar of raised hands and rising suns.

Built in the bold flat color designed to speak to the masses. The form is borrowed from systems that hold themselves together; the message it carries here is aimed at the soul.

The bear is Winnie the Pooh, by way of Benjamin Hoff's The Tao of Pooh, which explains Taoism through him: the uncarved block, doing without forcing. Pooh keeps no grudges and gives no thought to burden. Nothing has to happen for him to be glad about it — the day itself is the occasion. Joy on those terms costs nothing and needs no one's permission, which is what makes him free.

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