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Bullet the Blue Sky

"Bullet the Blue Sky", Recto, Back, American Flag, Protest Flag, Stars and Stripes, Amo, Bullets, 9mm, 223, upside down flag, cyanotype, cotton flag, 45th bullet, guns, gun violence, anti propeganda, antifa, anti-facism, anti white supremacy, anti-militia, © 2020 Jackie Neale - All Rights Reserved Bullet the Blue Sky - This body of work is a branching off of my larger fabric cyanotype series exploring immigration and assimilation, the series, Bullet the Blue Sky explores my cultural heritage as an Italian-American, and its progression through initial cultural rejection to assimilation of "white" cultural tendencies, and then an appropriation of ill-fitting patriotism. The use of the American Flag as symbolism in its distressed form (upside down) in each piece, I incorporate various symbols ranging from cultural symbols of Italian-Americanism to cultural oppression of those with a uterus to symbols of patriotism/service often used to justify violence and weapons. Each piece independently expresses a struggle with patriotism as a whole, but mostly an expression of disbelief of the hypocrisies within my surrounding and upbringing in the US.

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Bullet the Blue Sky
"Bullet the Blue Sky", Recto, Back, American Flag, Protest Flag, Stars and Stripes, Amo, Bullets, 9mm, 223, upside down flag, cyanotype, cotton flag, 45th bullet, guns, gun violence, anti propeganda, antifa, anti-facism, anti white supremacy, anti-militia, © 2020 Jackie Neale - All Rights Reserved Bullet the Blue Sky - This body of work is a branching off of my larger fabric cyanotype series exploring immigration and assimilation, the series, Bullet the Blue Sky explores my cultural heritage as an Italian-American, and its progression through initial cultural rejection to assimilation of "white" cultural tendencies, and then an appropriation of ill-fitting patriotism. The use of the American Flag as symbolism in its distressed form (upside down) in each piece, I incorporate various symbols ranging from cultural symbols of Italian-Americanism to cultural oppression of those with a uterus to symbols of patriotism/service often used to justify violence and weapons. Each piece independently expresses a struggle with patriotism as a whole, but mostly an expression of disbelief of the hypocrisies within my surrounding and upbringing in the US.