Special Anniversary Edition of 10 sets. (5 sets of 10 will be sold as Triptychs, the remaining 5 will be sold as individual prints. This is a separate piece).

This individual print is 23" x 17.5", with hand-applied glitter, digitally printed on archival paper; signed, dated, and numbered by Robbie Conal.

2021 is the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and the 20th anniversary of the triptych I painted and the posters WATCHING WAITING DREAMING made in response to that tragedy and our government's tragic response to it: the invasion of Iraq, bombing innocent people and rubble (from our first war on lraq) into pebbles—based on totally fabricated intelligence. What would Gandhi think if he were WATCHING now? Isn't there some other way to make social and political change other than to bomb the shit out of another country halfway around the world? The Dalai Lama has been WAITING for years to get his country back from invaders. Would Martin Luther King Jr. still be DREAMING of peace and justice for all, if he'd seen our government's substitution of surveillance for civil liberties in the "Patriot Act" after 9/11?

Twenty years later—looking around at the political violence we're living with today—I felt it was a good time to revisit these iconic heroes of non-violent political change! This edition differs slightly from the original silkscreen triptych first printed by the great Karen Fiorito in 2006. I've shizzled each print up with some holiday spirit! Here's my new full color––with hand-applied glitter and gold leafed––very limited edition redux of the original silkscreen triptych.

~Robbie Conal

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