Description: 
In the background, we can observe the chaos represented by the play of the following colors: red, yellow, green, black & blue. These are applied to pouring painting techniques. In the second layer, we can appreciate an Afroamerican person standing behind a fence with crying eyes. The third layer is painted with white color, however, it is just the contour due to the fact that the background contains all colors of the first layer. On the bottom center, we can recognize a strike, on its left side there is a black panther that represents the revolutionary movement groups in the USA called “Black Panthers”. Additionally, we can appreciate a big fist holding an eagle by a chain depicting the liberty of the racist system and the Statue of Liberty which is blurry. On the right side of the painting, a group of people representing the resistance against the normalization of society can be observed. As well as a police car burned by flames, the result of the smoke of the flames is a pigeon the worldwide recognized symbol of peace.
Context and Concept:
Have you questioned yourself WHY 2020? Why is this ALL happening now? In the past, there have been pandemics and crisis, but now we have all the tools to fight it, and still, we can not get ahead, WHY? Have you ever heard the concept of INDIVIDUALISM?
" Individualism is all about taking care of yourself; it is the belief and practice that every person is unique and self-reliant, that freedom of thought and action for each person are the most important qualities of a society, rather than shared effort and responsibility". https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/individualism. 
It lacks in social conscience. In individualism, you don't stop to think: how will my actions affect the people around me? Will they bring consequences or benefits only for me or for the community as well?
But how is this root of individualism related to what is happening today in 2020?
To connect the dots we have to explain how our individualistic society works, imagine a trinket at the ends we have first the citizens who have rights but also responsibilities to fulfill (such as to try to contaminate as little as possible, to respect, to stay at home in times of quarantine, etc). At the other extreme, we have the institutions that are in charge of meeting the needs (the police take care of the citizens, the politicians are fair and correct and do not get carried away by corruption) at the end we have the authority that is in charge of imposing the laws and is the example to follow for the citizens. I love it. Somehow every piece of society isn’t doing their job and we still have the arrogance to put all of the responsibility on others and that's how crisis begins. Political, social, economical, health, environmental, and cultural crises.
A clear example is George Floyd's death in Minneapolis, as a result of excessive force during his arrest for suspected use of a counterfeit 20 dollar bill by four local police officers. Within days, it generated a wave of outrage and protest across the United States against racism, xenophobia, and police abuse of black citizens.
All the events that have occurred have the same root, the lack of equal opportunities, mass production, capitalism, and finally the lack of interest in the common good, focusing on their own good. They are cyclical events, which occur in waves that come and go and there is no change in our behavior, only an increase in individualistic tendencies.
 What kind of citizens and leaders do we want? 
In the book “David and Goliath” by Malcolm Gladwell he says:    “When people in authority want the rest of us to behave, it matters – first and foremost – how they behave. This is called the “principle of legitimacy,” and this is based on three things.  First of all, the people who are asked to obey authority have to feel like they have a voice  – that if they speak up, they will be heard.  Second, the law has to be predictable.  There has to be a reasonable expectation that the rules tomorrow are going to be roughly the same as the rules today.  And third, the authority has to be fair.  It can’t treat one group differently from another.” 
Now what kind of citizens do we want to be?
The journalist Justin King said that "if you are only concerned about your rights and you are not concerned about your responsibilities, you have no social conscience. In every right, there is a responsibility. If you want ultimate freedom you want the right to do anything, anything as long as you are not infringing on somebody else, you also have shared responsibility for everything. For example, if you want the right to free speech, there is the responsibility to become educated."
This pandemic is the beginning of a new area of social conscience, for the first time a small group of people started to think ”I stay home to protect the other people”. Still to this day people protest for the rights of others. Let's stop together this cycle of individualism.  Let's embrace this social conscience and think about how your actions will affect others. thats how the color blind re-loveution starts
Paraphrasing J. F. Kennedy, ask yourself not what [the others] can do for you, but what you can do for them.

THE COLOR BLIND RELOVEUTION

Title: I´m not a bird, I´m a GameChanger
Description: In the work you can see a human doing a dive, he has his arms extended towards the horizons. At the bottom you can see the table where I jump, which has "Do not JUMP" written. The colors of these elements are white, black and different shades of gray. In the background you can see an abstraction of a valley with mountains and a lake this valley is golden, brown and yellow.

Concept: We live in a society full of rules and regulations that must be followed regardless of whether they cut our wings and our freedom. However, following the rules is necessary for the common good. So humans find ourselves in a dilemma: am I free or am I a slave to the system to maintain order? After much reflection I got to the point where I decided, that I am not a bird but I am a human who can reflect and question some rules and even break some of these rules to get even better results than the rules impose. Winston Churchill, Malala Yousafzai, Steve Jobs, and Abraham Lincoln broke schemes and changed the world. Occasionally one has to have the guts to break the rules and dare to raise our voices, make that leap blindly in which no one believes in order to get closer and closer to paradise (the golden valley) where equity exists. , love, solidarity as a priority.

I´m not a bird

Fredric Jameson utopically mentions that a global threat (a pandemic) gives rise to global solidarity, since our small differences become insignificant and teamwork to find a solution is pertinent, and here we are today, in real life. Final assessment: I was delighted to elaborate this work, since it can remove all the stress that not only I have been carrying due to the current situation. 

THE ANTIDOTE 

his is one of my favorite works, since it expresses that the human being not only consists of positivity but also has its downs, its sadness its truths. In society it is taboo to be sad and we should change that because a human being is happy but also melancholic.

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