SUBRUTUM Print

It was October 31, 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, beginning what was to be called the Protestant Reformation. A religious revolution had begun against the traditional, charismatic and civil powers of the Roman Catholic church. About 17 years after Luther's nailing his theses, Ignatius Loyola, Peter Faber and Francis Xavier formed the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits, to counter the Protestant Reformation. Since 1517, what will be 500 years in 2017, they have been very successful in derailing, what originally began as an inspired movement, and achieving key strategic influence in implementing their agenda. It is no accident that the top political heads of the U. S. government, during the Obama administration, such as FBI, CIA, NSA, Secretary of Defense, National Intelligence, Vice President, United States Secretary of State, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Homeland Security, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, United States Secretary of Energy, Office of Management and Budget, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, White House Chief of Staff, Assistant to the President, US Commission on International Religious Freedom (the chairman who by the way is a Jesuit priest), five of eight Supreme Court Justices and many others are all Jesuit trained. In light of all this I felt that, in a very small way, the train wreck of Montparnasse was a good metaphor reflecting, at a glance, the reality of the present, but also suggesting to some degree, the historical context. The title, "SUBRUTUM", is a Latin word which means undermine, subvert, destroy. I chose to do the work in black and white negative form to mirror, in a rather simple manner, the most sophisticated way in which the Jesuit mind works. After reading in the 2 volume Jesuitical Compendium (The Doctrines of the Jesuits), written in around 1843, by Jesuit professor P. Gury, I learned that they turn rational thinking upside down in order to achieve their goals. Through their craft of "logical processes" the criminal become innocent and the innocent becomes the criminal, black becomes white and white becomes black. Their ethic is that the end justifies the means.

Print:Giclee on Fine Art Paper

Size:8 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:13.25 W x 15.25 H x 1.2 D in

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