In February 2017, I was in the printshop at Mass Moca, making prints of the head of the victory goddess Nike

The radio was on. I heard the Speaker of the House tell Senator Elizabeth Warren to shut up and sit down; then the Senate voted to silence her. 

The impact of the news, of the senator’s silencing, compelled me to drop a black ‘ink’ hood over Nike’s head.

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Printing the black hood images continued for several days, initially as a symbol of female censorship...

...moving onto being expressions of silencing, religious fervor, historical and present day racism, terrorism, and public degradation.