“food fighter” yasuto sasada

“仏像 (“Buddhist image”)” yasuto sasada

words from the artist: “I am a product of the Vietnam War. The more I dig into my family’s history, the deeper I get into how it began, the U.S involvement and the overall colonization of the Vietnamese which dates back to the Han Dynasty (111 BCE). I couldn’t help but see some parallels of what is happening in Gaza to what happened during the Vietnam War which is what called me to create work about this. Media has found ways to silence voices in order to portray other narratives. “Eat the Colonizer,” is a blue and white porcelain pot made to look like a cake referencing the trending phenomenon where people make hyper realistic cakes of other objects. In this case, I am making a pot look like a cake revealing a receipt of military expenses the U.S has provided Israel (what has been publicized so far.) Like click bait, this pot is not what it seems. This is to critique social media’s content curation that limits and censors political content- a feature that some platforms pushed during the height of the genocide in Gaza. The absurd amount of weapons that costs hundres of BILLIONS of dollars is possible with American tax dollars. I am once again ashamed of being a citizen in this country and have lost hope in our systems of government. Power is in the hands of the people, please keep donating, pushing Palestinian voices, don’t allow their lights to dim and CEASE FIRE.” Receipt Transcription: U.S Military Aid and Weapons Ticket ID: 22565326 Customer: Israel Date: 10 / 2023 - 05 / 2024 Item Quantity Cost M795 155-millimeter artillery shells 52,229 M4 propelling charges 30,000 M107 155mm artillery ammunition 4,792 M830A1 120-mm tank rounds 13,981 Lines 1-4 Total $106,100,000 Iron Dome batteries 2x $200,000,000 Spice Bomb $320,000,000 Tank ammunition $700,000,000 Tactical vehicles $500,000,000 Mortar rounds $60,000,000 Boeing F-15 fighter aircraft 50x $18,000,000,000 2,000 pound bombs 1,800x $5,580,000 500 pound bombs 1,700x $2,550,000 Total $19,894,230,000 President Biden will aid military weapons to Israel under an Obama-era $38 billion aid agreement lasting until 2026. Almost half of U.S discretionary spending is spent on the military ($752.6 billion in collected data from 2021).

kim le “eat the colonizer” (2024)

jason briggs “roxie” (2024)

imari pear shaped vase

jessica harrison “broken ladies: alice” (2014)

“woman with cut finger” (2001) tip toland

“pareid vase” (2024) Matthew Skelly

“the ambassadors” (1533) hans holbein the younger