Mixed media on plywood
200cm X 91.44cm (78.75” X 36”)

To inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.
Edward Snowden

On May 20, 2013 NSA contractor Edward Snowden flew from Hawaii to Hong Kong to release classified NSA documents to two journalists “to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.”

His passport was revoked on July 22 leaving him stateless. Snowden applied for asylum in twenty-one countries and in a bizarre twist for a man concerned with global surveillance and information privacy he was granted temporary asylum in Russia, a country that monitors all communication without warrant.

Cast of characters: Edward Snowden, Vladimir Putin, Leonid Brezhnev, the neck and necktie of Ronald Reagan, JFK covered in Russian pixação, Obama and drones, Hillary Clinton and oral spear, Anthony Weiner and wiener, John McCain, Ron Paul, John Boehner…pointing, alien spacecraft neutralizing nuclear mushroom clouds, baby Jesus and Pussy Riot.