“As The Founders Intended”

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States — the foundational promise of free expression, the right to speak, to dissent, to say the unsayable — is written here approximately 2,300 times in white ink against black. Luminous. Fragile. Fighting to be seen in the dark.

Woven through it, interleaved and inseparable, in dark green ink against light green — "Fuck You I Won't Do What You Tell Me." Written approximately 2,300 times. Equal in number. Equal in weight. Equal, it turns out, under the law.

At the center, a photograph. A toy soldier — green plastic, black background, mouth open in a scream. Manufactured for obedience. Screaming anyway.

The two texts are distinct — you can follow the white thread or the green, read the constitutional guarantee or the primal refusal — but step back and they become one thing. One argument. One insistence that the right to say exactly this, in exactly these words, is not a gift granted by those in power but a promise already made. Already owed.

As the founders intended.

"As The founders Intended - 2024 - Hand-written and woven. Ink on paper. Green and green words - "Fuck You I Won't Do What You Tell Me"

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