From 2008 to 2013, Art & Document was the voice of the Center for Documentary Arts, a nonprofit project founded by Timothy Cahill at the Sage Colleges of upstate New York. Situated at the crossroads of art, ethics, faith, and conscience, the blog continues the Center's mission to present artists, writers, and thinkers who, in their lives and works, partake of the sacred, bear witness to suffering, and manifest beauty, dignity, and charity.

28 August 2023

Barry Lopez: The response to tyranny




And the response 

to tyranny of every sort,

if it is to work,

must always be this:

dismantle it.

Take it apart.

Scatter its defenders

and its proponents,

like a flock of starlings

fed to a hurricane.

—Barry Lopez



Composite mugshots of nineteen co-conspirators indicted for attempted election interference in Georgia.


Quotation from "Apocalypse," in Resistance (Alfred A. Knopf 2004).
Photo via Fulton County (GA) Sheriff's Office.








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