The Unmarked Grave

Latitude 53, 10125 104 St NW, Edmonton, AB T5J 0Z9

Fall 2001

In 1998, mass murderer, human rights violator, and embezzler of government funds, Dictator Augosto Pinochet, was put under house arrest in London, with an international warrant issued by judge Baltasar Garzón of Spain. As with most Crony Capitalists, buddies Margaret Thatcher and George W. H. Bush were quickly calling for Pinochet’s release in 2001. He was eventually acquitted, due to “poor health”, after being held and released from house arrest between 2004 - 2006. Like a rat in a fancy cage with dementia, barely leaving his home, Pinochet died a dazed and confused coward, never having faced the justice his victims deserved.

This body of work is a statement against the Chilean government (1973 - 1990), ruled under the fist of Dictator Pinochet, and his henchmen: Chilean soldiers turned murderers of their own countrymen. The symbolism of the self-portrait is to reinforce that we are all of the same species, and desire the same rights as the greedy 10% running the world.

The images superimposed as acrylic transfers, are images of the women and children who died and disappeared at the hands of the Chilean government. They are the collateral of questions asked by grown men who have no control of their emotions, like over grown toddlers. For the greed of the disgusting Chilean and American elite, thousands were murdered and tortured at the hands of “the protectors of the people”: the guard dog Carabineros, their President, and the US tax-dollars that backed them up.