To understand the complex nature of recent and past history on life’s journey, we must keep our eyes focused squarely on the big picture, and avoid the armies of spin doctors of the Capitalist media, with their superficial, reduced and dumbed down view of life and reality at all costs. In that direction lie even further possibilities of crisis, catastrophe and carnage.

I also realised that one of the paintings that I did around 2000 contains a figure that looks similar to the financial Wall St con man Bernard Madoff, who was responsible for the biggest rip off in human history with his expropriation of over $60 billion from people’s savings. In my painting ‘Rich Man, Poor Man, Banker Man, Thief’ (see above, Fig 3;), the figure on the right looks very like Madoff (but without glasses). even though, I had never heard of him at that time. I was just making an artistic statement using brush drawing and collage about rich and poor nations and the exploitation, which occurs between them with a poor Asian looking through a small key hole at the parasitic multibillionaire.

I am no stranger to doing protest paintings as it’s been part of a life long passion, at least since the early sixties.