finding fertile settlements when homeland economics are stagnant, subjugating and exploiting indigenous peoples for minerals, artifacts, labor, and innovation is empire. the west’s colonial revolution defined by the annexation of sovereign lands, facilitated the grind of unlimited material resources into capital excesses during the industrial revolution. this model of settler colonial development continues today in the middle east byway of the united states and its western partners.

i hope to use this blog space and subsequent artworks to illuminate the myriad ways the west uses the world as its bank — looting cultures then transfiguring those gains through its museum system into an image of cultural superiority, simultaneously challenging counter impulses and justice movements led by the global south — all to keep a stranglehold on global financial markets, regional economic prosperity, and private equity.