ROGER PEET. JUSTSEEDS ARTISTS’ COOPERATIVE.
Roger Peet is an artist, printmaker, muralist etc. living in Portland, Oregon, USA. His work tends to focus on civilized bad ideas, predator-prey relationships, and the contemporary crisis of biodiversity and what can and can’t be done about it. He coordinates the Endangered Species Mural Project, and helps to run the cooperative Flight 64 print studio in Portland. He collaborates with artists, activists and scientists globally and locally in the service of a more generous and a wilder world. Betray Whiteness, Screenprint from rubylith, 8” x 10”, 2017. ‘I made this print while thinking about the biology of the black widow spider, which has a venom whose power vastly exceeds that necessary for killing the spiders’ prey. Doctors trying to diagnose a black widow bite ask a sufferer if this is the worst pain they’ve ever felt; a positive answer indicates a potential encounter with a widow. That seemed an apt metaphor for the power conveyed by the ideology of whiteness- the power to hurt and destroy in novel and occult ways.’
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