No one is happy.
Everyone is on edge. Left and Right.
The vote by mail was an attempt to circumvent the pandemic which is still rampant; more on that later. People are worried that their vote--for or against--won't come or go as planned. Or discounted if not delivered according to a strict protocol.
Friends have told me that they'll show up in haz-mat suits to vote if they've got any voting insecurity, but that's no one knows how that's going to go, either.
So many months have gone by, flown like the wind, and we're less than 90 days till the fateful one. Biden is calm and has said that the election results will be determined by January 20th, and that's the day that the US Marshalls will, if necessary, vacate the office.
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I'm waiting for the reply from Robert Indiana's estate to publish the print, left. It's a play on the stamp made from his artwork from way back. It's very interesting that when he created the work in 1970, it was done as a gentle submission to his religious beliefs.
A devout Christian Scientist from Indiana (Robert Clark is his real name), he created the artwork not as a nod to the sexual revolution of the 1960s, but to the love that his beliefs required to extend to others. A very private man, he was miffed at the fame that the commercialization of his famous, famous art work brought him. Originally, it was a sculpture, and the original is housed in the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
The original postage stamp was printed in color: the red letters with blue and green vibrating backgrounds. It has been reinterpreted in many sizes, materials and media over the decades, and my use of it travels on two avenues. The political one, obviously. But I am thrilled that the typeface used in the original sculpture is a form of Clarendon. How wonderful.
For me, it's critical to keep the interplay on my message: that, in disrupting the mail delivery for the sake of the election, we must expect and demand that our vote be cast and delivered in a timely and decent matter.
However, many millions will be spent against this endeavor and ultimately hurt many millions of people.
For example: many receive their medications by mail. Can they afford a two-week delay? What about people who send in their rent to their landlords. Will they be evicted if that check isn't delivered on time?
While the pandemic has demonstrated how dependent we will be on electronic exchanges in the future, it has also shown the debilitating disadvantage of those who either don't have the technology or who depend on physical items to live. It puts in start relief how we've co-opted yet another public service.
Especially now, for corrupt and personal purposes of this president.
