Kansas City Artist Redacts Constitution

Don't forget . . . This blog is REALLY the only alternative new source in Kansas City so we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge an artsy display that MIGHT elicit a knee-jerk reaction from those who aren't accustomed to creative-class antics . . . Here's the local write-up that's worth a quick look . . . 

"Since timing, and therefore context, is everything, Citizen José Faus has done a deep textual dive into the United States Declaration of Independence, on the eve of its imminent 250th anniversary, and let’s just say somebody got a new box of fat chisel tip markers and got to fixin’ things . . . 

"That same U.S. Declaration of Independence still packs a wallop as a worthy assertion of human rights. As a statement of principles, it contains the most quoted and argued over lines ever in American literature. Faus, with tattoo artist skills, somehow enhances its flaws by magnifying them. His poems show us how the Declaration continues to be an important mirror of ideological shifts in political philosophy, cracking open some salty new readings."

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"José Faus: We Hold These Truths," Guldner Gallery, Kansas City Central Library - KC STUDIO

In the first of ten poems identically framed and neatly hung around the Central Library's Guldner Gallery, Faus wasn't shy with his marker.