Murders against Manufactured Consent

Murders against Manufactured Consent

Ravens and Crows are intelligent birds that have significance in a variety of cultures associated with gods; sometimes as a god, trickster lore, creation myths and the quest of knowledge. These corvids can provide be an architype or a symbol to help resist falling prey to manufactured consent, doing things your way and turning the system against itself.

In Viking mythology ravens flew around the world to collect information and act as messengers for Odin the all-father who sometimes would shape shift into a raven. His ravens were called thought and memory. In the Pacific Northwest Native Peoples lore Raven the God freed humans and then using his charm to enchant Eagle’s daughter stole fire, the sun and the moon so that people would have light. There are many stories about ravens and crows a rich lore of fantasy, myth and reality. In reality ravens and crow are two of the few animals who have found success with the rise of man learning to live among us, they are intelligent and self-aware.

To me this is symbolic to the cause of protecting our access to information. Working together like a murder of crows/ravens we can gather our resources, share information, and in some cases do it ourselves.

The jacket is surplus army camouflage in woodland pattern, with patches of a raven skull and silhouette printed with block print and ink. The lettering is hand painted.  The message is to think critically, gather knowledge and act but remember you do not have to act alone; Join the Murder.

James (Jim D.) Davidson



Question 1. How do you know when your consent is being "manufactured", how would you measure that. 

Question 2. Can you live in this world without getting and giving at least some "consent" that is being manufactured for you?

Dog Valley, a Sense of Place

Student Gallery Instalation

Verdi Side,  cord 39.5243230, -120.0125800

This place matters to me because I have spent a lot of time at work and play back here. It is rich in wildlife, hosts a crystal mine, camping, and fishing. I fight wildfires, do forestry work, hunt for crystals and mushrooms, drive my Jeep and hike with my dog. The area provides easy access for fishing and swimming nearby in the Boca, and stampede reservoirs, and the Truckee river. There is also access on the north end through Border-town/Cold Springs side or you can get there from Peavine if you are hiking or have a 4x4 drive.                                                                                         

 

 How I created my scroll.

First I had to select a medium, I experimented with a few things such as printing, block printing, cirtisolve, and gel-transfer. Surfaces such as bristol paper, parchment, leather, gesso canvass and raw canvass. This effort provided a wealth of ideas some of which would work with this project and some that would not. 

I went with gel-tranfer  on raw canvass because it proved to be the best for what I wanted to do.

I needed glue, Gloss Heavy Gel Medium, some wooden dowel, and artist canvass,

1. First I selected the digital photographs that I wanted to use, printed them out plus extras in case some did not work out. I have found with gel-tranfer there are sometimes failures. 

2. Thoroughly coated the prints with acrylic gloss gel and waited 12-24 hours for it to dry.

3. After the gel is dry soak them in water to so I can clean the paper off, this leaves a glossy, translucent print that may look a little tattered. 

4. Figure out the pieces I am going to use by laying out the prints in the order I need keeping in mind composition, geography and timeline. Geography is especially important for a Sense of Place work. 

5. Cut the canvas to the length and width needed keeping in mind the gallery space that I am limited to. Cut the dowels to the length approperate for my scroll it should be at least two inches long than the width of the scroll so the view has something to hold on to.

6. Make a single wrap of the canvass around the dowel and then glue it.You also stitch with end caps or staple or a combination of methods to attach the material to the dowel. 

7. Place the gel-transfers on the scroll in the order you want trimming to fit if necessary and attach them with more gel by thoroughly coating the back. Then coat the top filling in cracks and if the picks are close enough together fill in the area in between, this creates a solid sheet of gel which will still look tattered is actually pretty durable.

8. At this point you just need to give it time to dry and then you can roll it up or hang in up.

Some photographs that I used and did not use.The ones not used was because they would not fit on the scroll, but they are part of the story.

Three Months and Three Years, block print

Resistance and Power #1, Artist Statement

Jim Davidson

                Where ever there is power there is resistance. Power is built through resistance and through resistance new evolution comes. Power that is not shaped by resistance is often hollow or unbalanced. The hollow and unbalance will be crushed or fall to the environments that resist them and new orders will arise. This project of my art speaks of this aspect of conflict theory and resistance, it says rise up, resist and make anew; the time is now or never.

First digital Raven

Aiden's Trex modifed

Raven, hunter, messenger, trickster..