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Feb. 7th, 2026 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelav(Putting this here since I do not trust the critical thinking and literacy skills on the other platforms I generally post art in.)
JD Riley is an exceptionally lovely creative partner in crime that I've collaborated on several comics and anthologies with (and likely will in the future). We're also, to different degrees, infamous for uniform fetish and (it must be said) anti-fascist naziexploitation art.
I lay out this context because Riley wrote a powerful, incisive essay on an artist that was recently found to draw explicitly (mentioned by the artist) pro-ICE, quote unquote, fanart.
I encourage you to read through that essay (not only because it closely mirrors my own thoughts); it's some necessary words for such a deeply, deeply disgusting series of events; and I appreciate Riley for having the eloquence and very specific experience to cover this.
Personally, art reveals quite a lot about society - among other canaries in the coal mine, it asks the why implicitly by its existence.
Why did one create a piece?
Quite a few create to show beauty, or to communicate with others in humanity. Many for whimsy. Others create for daring - the two of us know more than most how in banned obscenity, there can be exceptionally rich subversiveness since it also asks why Power bans something so unthreatening (nothing like fetish work to directly speak to what most fear).
And other times, it is an unrelenting mirror to bald faced cruelty and blood on the hands of those who serve tyrants.
unintentionally, it asks: why do you allow these deeds to happen?
JD Riley is an exceptionally lovely creative partner in crime that I've collaborated on several comics and anthologies with (and likely will in the future). We're also, to different degrees, infamous for uniform fetish and (it must be said) anti-fascist naziexploitation art.
I lay out this context because Riley wrote a powerful, incisive essay on an artist that was recently found to draw explicitly (mentioned by the artist) pro-ICE, quote unquote, fanart.
I encourage you to read through that essay (not only because it closely mirrors my own thoughts); it's some necessary words for such a deeply, deeply disgusting series of events; and I appreciate Riley for having the eloquence and very specific experience to cover this.
Personally, art reveals quite a lot about society - among other canaries in the coal mine, it asks the why implicitly by its existence.
Why did one create a piece?
Quite a few create to show beauty, or to communicate with others in humanity. Many for whimsy. Others create for daring - the two of us know more than most how in banned obscenity, there can be exceptionally rich subversiveness since it also asks why Power bans something so unthreatening (nothing like fetish work to directly speak to what most fear).
And other times, it is an unrelenting mirror to bald faced cruelty and blood on the hands of those who serve tyrants.
unintentionally, it asks: why do you allow these deeds to happen?
