Red, White, Black and Blue © 2014-2015

Red, White, Black and Blue (The Revenge of Billy Jack) depicts a single fight sequence inspired by a famous scene from the Western classic where Billy Jack defends the students of the ‘Freedom School’ from a powerful faction of local conservatives. Reduced to a series of individual large format image stills, this hyperbolic re-envisioning of Billy Jack’s Revenge is emblematic of the contentious nature of humanity at work splintering our fragile social and political environment. The continuing loop of conflict and lack of resolution described in the images underlines the alarming amount of discord coursing through the veins of society that appears increasingly drawn on ideological extremes. It points to the challenges of resistance in the fight for a more just world, where there exists only right or wrong, black or white, red or blue. Furthermore, the work illustrates a major crisis of masculinity and increasing disregard for civility that is paving the way to intolerance, provocation, brutality, and the potential for complete societal breakdown.