Jim Carrey and Jerry Saltz on Art and Activism

[Music] [Applause] thanks for nothing [Applause] totally inappropriate yeah definitely and thank you for all of that for me the art critic well I'm really glad all you guys could make it here this afternoon thank you for being here the energy in the room is POW and I'm impressed with you I love halay if anybody wants to give me a job but that's good I have to bring us down just a little bit and do please I'm here not to talk about movies or actually just any one thing I'm here to talk about how we all play our own instrument how we're all writing our own letter to the world how it's very confining to have gatekeepers for example call you just an actor or you're just a cartoonist you're just a musician you're only an illustrator the gatekeepers keep everything kind of ordered that way and I don't like it we all as Walt Whitman said contradict ourselves you all contain multitudes you're a bonus and other nasir to talk about Jim Carrey's drawings and paintings and wherever that leads us away from the gatekeepers and this is important to me as an art critic and I really started watching his drawings almost immediately in 2016 when I saw them on Twitter and finally a homebodies have to point themselves at something what pain bodies have you point them till about something definitely when we're in pain we find it pointed at me and I want you all to see all the drawings at-michelle macaron at 300 South Mission Road and I want to say this about that where they're being shown is not a hokey-pokey place it's not about cashing in I guess somebody like Jim Carrey could show anywhere but he picked a real gallery of a committed loving gallerist you had an opening a couple weeks ago yeah and I wanted to talk about what I call radical vulnerability right meaning when you make art in another medium you're really putting yourself out there in another way what was the opening like because you've been at a zillion of these I feel I don't I don't work towards the encouragement of the crowd as much as I do myself if I feel like I've accomplished something interesting that I'm good and I know it's gonna find somebody because we're not that different but when I walked into that room and and I get emotional my eyes are emotional just waiting to come out here tonight because there's a this is a very soft spot in my life art art right is a it's a very vulnerable open soft spot and you you lay yourself open to be criticized ripped apart told you should stay in your lane yeah and I've never believed in lanes I don't even believe I'm a person so I you know there are no lanes I don't believe in them I do believe that passion wins out that there is you know a driving force behind artists and the ones that are you know in need of expressing a feeling or or just a a sense of what's beautiful or what's terrible and they're driven do this action by those are the people that I feel really compel an audience and also I believe in art as a way to bring people into presence together you know I truly believe that the greatest art in the world it's like james joyce portrait of an artist as a young man he he says that the greatest of art the masterpieces really are the are the ones that stop you there's nothing to say it causes a stasis you know in your brain there's no judgment to be made and and that's what I'm looking forward to one day stumbling into something because my heart my soul and my my talent for the craft is in a place where they all come together and capture something that can't be described that's the goal yeah but I'm I'm happy to throw punches all the way and and add these a lottery at the opening there you're standing around now your art is on the way I couldn't believe it in what sense yeah I stood in the middle of the art show and I love to her happened and the sheer volume of it freaked me out like I did this I said I couldn't have done it no it's not possible Saturday and I said it and I said how did this happen yeah I can't do this right and that's because the passion and the need and the desire behind it was bigger than me you know and that's what you all happen to get here that all the demons inside of you are speaking to at 3:15 they could call his demons at 3:15 in the morning and so you got over those demons and started working I live with those demons weird they're my palette you know they're they're a part of my cavalcade of characters they're everything to me there's it's funny this separation of arts because I mean there's you know there's definitely something to somebody who's grown up in the art world and learned and schooled been schooled and knows how to mix paint to knows how to do these things and knows the history there's something too but you know the fact is we're all sculptors in our lives all of us you are with what you do you you do it with words now where's easily with pastels and yeah well he wrote a Pulitzer prize-winning article that was so self-effacing and open and honest and incredible that that he bridged a gap there and and and he is the bridge because he is an artist and he understands an artist and so all he wants to do I believe is to you know is to to allow people over that bridge you know could to help people to the next level and I and I respect that I loved the article I think really beautiful and honest thanks and I like some of your stuff really I like some of your stuff yeah that's all we can ever hope for man yeah so you're standing around you're at the opening what's your daily practice like in drawing and painting because mostly all artists and all of you know this from your lives what you do is happening inside of you all of the time and that's you have a boring life really you're just alone I thought it would go away when I went back to work as an actor that I've okay well this energy is now gonna go into the other thing but I can't stop if I want it to stop I can't stop the hard part for me is stopping is stopping long enough to take care of the business of my life because once I get started yeah all plans go away you know what I was gonna do with the afternoon and the other regard is completely disappeared I'm free and that's what it is for me it's a its presence freedom in presence and I think the greatest works of art in the world are examples of an artist's absolute presence touching the canvas it's kind of in my mind I go when the brush hits the can this or you're sculpting clay or whatever it is in that moment you're hitting the pond with a rock and that the wave goes outward and it doesn't stop goes around the world especially now and everything I can't you know in an out burger without it going global so sure so when I touch the canvas if I'm there and I'm really in love with it then that will be love you know and if I want to get somebody and I want to tell people to watch out for this person and watch out for the inequities of the world and and you know paint an example of those inequities which I've been doing that's the wave that goes out that's the dirac in the pond so the definition then of art in some ways is to be able to embed thought and feeling in material you follow that and so if the thought is outside the work and nobody it doesn't communicate but your your stuff on Twitter is actually communicating you do an amazing thing where you combine the text and the words much like conceptual artists always did with their title and business for that how does that work for you well it was interesting because when I first started playing on Twitter like everybody else I just got myself in trouble all the time because I was honest which is terrible thing to be on Twitter but you know so it was a little scary and I became kind of an activist when it comes to a lot of things that I was seeing and there was a lot of pressure on me from my management from you know people in charge to go like don't mess this up you know don't you've got great you've got goodwill in the world people love you you start talking about politics or whatever issues you're gonna lose half your audience and I say lose em amen [Applause] that's right that's right if 30 percent of this 37 percent of this country isn't willing to open their mind to what's going on and see what's right in front of them this demon that's controlling us at this moment and his minions then there's no helping them and you just have to go your way and you have to say your piece and your truth and that's what I've been trying to do but there was a pressure to stop and the first thing I did in which I think was really smart was you know give my Twitter to one of my assistants so that I wouldn't make that rash choice in the middle of the night like our president did you see him today he called peacefully missed him today he called Adam Schiff Adam that's anyway yeah you give very classy classy Washington you can you give it to an assistant I do but also the whole time I was trying to convince my people this is a canvas I don't know what to do with the canvas yet but I'm gonna find out I'm gonna find something to do with this canvas social media is a canvas for me that's right yeah you know and I think if it's used in that way to express the truth or whatever and in an artistic way it's a beautiful thing and I think it has turned into an incredibly beautiful thing and I I just feel so gratified and I feel gratified that I'm here with you and and that you people are interested in [Applause] it seems to me one of the what is activism we asked ourselves this in the art world activism might boil down to an artist or all of you you notice things that's step one everybody notices what's going on in the United States all around the world right now of the devastation of our country from the inside but an artist and I think this is where you are definitely an artist since we have to use these labels they notice things then they say what they noticed Andy Warhol may not have been passionate about capital punishment but he painted electric chairs and people being killed that way so you see the things we were caught up in and and mesmerized by which is celebrity culture and products and the the repetitiveness of it and your drawing now every day yeah every Devery thought today I did I'd like to see if he posted anything today well if you do want to indulge me I could send one out right now while we're all here if you don't follow him just get out of here and follow me as a favor my editors will love that okay Jerry Saltz okay I had to put one of my assistants on speakerphone here if I can Wow I don't this will pick it up there you go Brogan amen fill the torpedo tube fire okay I think one of the greatest one of the greatest enemies of our democracy is the subject of this this tweet oh my god it's him it is Mitch McConnell yeah and what is the text on this one there is no text on this tweet because I didn't think it was necessary just to see him in front of the blue wave and depicted as a as a turtle which unfortunately for him now is not protected reptiles and such so and also the nerve of a man who's been trying to destroy everything with compassion everything that we've tried to do that's good for this country and that we built that's beautiful in this country you know and made us completely non-inclusive and made us you know basically severed us in half made us hate each other yeah and and this man has been doing that for for eight I don't know how many years too many years anyway he's a to me a poison in our system and we have to purge yes no and and he has the nerve after all of it after trying to destroy everything Barack Obama did that was good after you know taking our help trying to take the health care and give two tax breaks to the rich and giving us to fake Wars crashing the economy with hood yeah just incredibly dangerous a threat to Homeland Security and and and now he has the nerve to come out a couple of days ago and ask for bipartisanship well I'm telling you you know that's a nice thought and you know I wasn't I wasn't happy with Nancy Pelosi either when she came out with that immediately on on winning some seats in the House these are not people you can deal with you cannot be bipartisan with a criminal hmm a rapist needs to be removed not you know negotiated with these people are raping our system they're destroying blatantly in front of us and they have to go you can't deal with them this corrupt Republican Congress that was these the noonas of the world and the lindsey graham's of the world that is just like the most two-faced person i've ever seen on my life yeah hey there trump and now he's safe just blowing in the wind wherever it wherever it blows and you know these people have to be removed from our system because they're bad for us they're bad for there's you know Trump is a melanoma and anybody who covers for him including Sarah Saunders Sanders is is putting makeup on it you know but it it it shows that there's a deeper problem in this country I have problem is greed greed and greed and greed and oh gosh you know african-american people might be better than us right they might take over they it's just fear and greed is where we're living and they want us that way they also you know if you if you notice you know the emphasis de-emphasizing education all of it they're trying to take our consciousness from here and reduce it to this whatever you're told by Fox News and the National Inquirer at the at the cashier in the supermarket yeah they want people to be in that zone in that very limited zone it's it's misinformation it's adorable do you watch I do when I write all day I actually have far right-wing radio on in the background and I use it as adrenaline yes and and unknown they're always angry when Bush was president they were pissed off for eight years then when Obama was president they were pissed off and do you watch they did everything but hang him on the frigging White House lawn and is sickening to me and it's sickened me the date Aretha Franklin died I cried that someone so beautiful and so incredibly conscious and someone who's done so much to lift a spirit of people has to close her eyes in a world like this injustice should not happen can't can't stand it I can't take it just so we'll yell until it's over and are you watching the yellers the Fox News the far right-wing radio do you yeah I do too any of you you should and I'm afraid I did and I burn my clothes and take a hot shower and do you follow the president's Twitter account I do no Wow you can't avoid it it's a sickening said have you been blocked by any of the administration on Twitter I don't think so no I I'm you know I'm free to do what I want to do I don't know if I'm being listened to or I got blocked by Donald Trump jr. myself gangster yeah man yeah I know that's a red badge of glory for sure I gotta go back to the drawings I told you I'm boring they're done in heat it looks like in with real passion there they're fast but I have to say though your line is very controlled I see that he goes back over things you you use white out very well is that what you think no one uses that not above that no gray it's white paint man what's your problem the artists toys wins and then you ripped them out of the notebook which is interesting a lot of artists would get very precious yeah and keep the notebook for the lack well that was Michelle macaronis as well wherever she give her credit for that because she came and she she looked at my body of work that I was a building and she went I want them like this you know you know don't pretty them up yeah I like the rawness of just ripping it out of the pad and that it is a pad in the first place and so you've draw every day I do what I used to do when I was a little kid and that was like from you know from the age of five till ten I spent most of my time in my room I did go out and play but my room was heaven to me and that feeling of like I'm gonna I'm gonna figure out the universe in here yep I'm going to do some poetry and then try to get it published by mcgraw-hill Ryerson and and I'm gonna get on The Carol Burnett Show so I'm doing impressions and coming up with stuff like that yeah and art and if someone interrupted my drawing when I was a child I would have a conniption and break things because I was in the womb and it really is that for me so during this period of time there's a terribly negative effect of these kind of people and this kind of corruption and greed taking over there's also a beautiful effect because artists come to life artists do the greatest work of their lives when they're trying to reach people you know and so that's a beautiful thing and I'm right back as soon as I put a pencil on a page right back at 8 years old yeah I'm 8 years old again only now I'm dealing with something really serious but but in a way that that keeps me in my youth yeah you know it was there I felt really gifted by it was there art in your life your father or your mother because it seems to me there had to be that's I don't know anything about his life so yeah well you know let's just keep it that way Jerry yeah no the the amazing gift of this whole thing as well is that and pardon me if I get misty here but my father who was an incredible clown an amazing human being who if you've talked to him for five minutes she knew him for 50 years it was just your friend you know and do anything for you and just lovely incredible funny I watched him perform and I sat back and I went that's a good thing to do mm-hmm and wrapped people in our in our in our home every time they visited you know and they would leave with pee stains and go Percy my dad's name was Percy which makes you funny immediately but they would leave going you missed your calling Percy you missed your calling and he handed me all that talent and that stuff and that ability to perform and that was him and I lived with that for thirty years before this passion this childhood passion came back of painting sculpting and everything else and and I realized one day I went right in the middle of creating something that oh my gosh I'm with my mother now that's it I'm getting to spend time with her because she she used to get up in the middle of the night and take these pastels out and have her private world in the middle of the night without three kids screaming at her and and she would get lost in her little paintings of tigers and giraffes and things she put up in our room the next day and it was her peaceful time and and and she had a great talent for it and and I realized that my gosh I get to spend like I'm getting the benefit of the greatest you know energy from both parents both of them gave me these incredible gifts and so I really grown I look at it like time with my mother that explains a lot to me because it seems to me you've talked a lot about she also didn't put up with any really yeah she's not one to like parse her words and did you but it reminded me that you've talked about and tweeted about that this comes from fury anger pain rage and love that's why she took my lines I was gonna say well it's I'm in our critic you know ah how can you hate something without loving yeah else that's yeah that's it all art even when you're like Goya have you ever seen boy his painting of Saturn eating his children it's nothing is uglier on this are incredible and yet you have to have love to make a thing Bosch is painted with grace and I have a bossy and character in one of my paintings to in one of the in one of the drawings the drawing where and I asked where the the Trump base is following a Red Hat to health there's a there's a BA Chien character in there the the plague character yeah let you want to see some of the art right now [Applause] okay I don't know how to do this in our criticism it doesn't work this way but can we please have an image here we go we're doing it now it's doing us the date on this one is August 10th of this year what's going on well I you know I was struck by the in sincerity of Mike Pence his face is the most insincere thing I've ever seen it's really the face of absolute insincerity yes absolutely stunning tape squinting his eyes like this and trying to look like he loves you that's so cares about you it's a hospitality face what can I do to help you let me hold your wallet and I'll help you out here he is so disgusting today I can't believe it and that's him with this overlord yeah bro that's him trying to sell us the idea of space force remember that not since Saturday morning cartoons you know what I mean Space Ghost gonna be there no my gosh The Jetsons okay and where did this pose come from I think he has a real gift in his drawing for how he I'm a bit of a director that way you are and I know because I know the proscenium when I act in front of a camera I no interest to have a sense of the square the rect web the square in the Fibonacci sequence Jesus concept-- the golden proportions and dude you're next image please Wow now this is something I woke up I saw I can't remember exactly what the outrage was they though mold it again yeah if June June of this year what was going on then whatever who can who can remember who cares let's move on let's scrub and move on but yeah I I was struck by something you know him doing something about being Christian or something like that and I was just sickened by it and I just I just you know I just thought of every insulting challenging selfish indulgent word he says as another nail in the hand of Jesus on the cross to me because it is exactly the opposite of what he was supposed to be teaching us and you know whether you think he's a deity or a teacher or whatever or if he even existed at all it's just bastardized so badly in this country the Christian Right is sickening to me I think that we're gonna find out when when they eventually find out and I don't know this to be a fact I just believe it myself I haven't proven it but my instinct tells me that there are some abortions paid for and some people who jumped in and said it was me and I think they're gonna find that out and then we'll finally know once and for all that the Christian Right has never been about morality agreed it's always been about holding on to power and you have morality to do so why yes right Lizzie power I think that's very true I love the touch of putting the president in a Roman legion the very good touch and very filmic I have to say I will see ya Mel Gibson would be very happy with that next image please now this is my Halloween photo Halloween dramedy Halloween yeah well you know but but to me the right is a cyclops it is a it's season two dimensions yeah what can I have what can I get how can i these people and get it and to me that's a very narrow field of vision to live in so I depicted him as a cyclops on Halloween because you know there's there's there's no perception going on there I think that's really perceptive because one thing that the far right has that we don't have if we are a we and we better be otherwise you should just leave yeah stop apologizing for it or trying to be gentle about it snowflakes it's like if there's enough slow snowflakes it creates a blizzard and that's what we're gonna do kaboom yeah I don't mind being a snowflake if that means you know they started calling me you know they try to turn you into something immediately and label you and and marginalize you by doing it so as soon as I say you know Canadian health care is good and I read an article yesterday somebody sent sent to me that said that the Canadian doctors are actually prescribing visits to museums to see art right because people are stressed yeah now that's a thoughtful thing to do you know and so I put it out there because I'm sick and tired of hearing that that system doesn't work I never waited for anything in my life my mother never paid for a prescription or a she's Canadian and has a Canadian health care and that's why we hate you yeah exactly but but you know this is the thing is the lie keeps going and if as you try to help people they call you a socialist they try to label you so they called me a socialist because they want people to have health care because they want somebody to be able to keep their house when their mother gets sick you know it's just not right this country is too too great for that and too great for that and you know health care is what great countries do when they grow up they do universal health care I we have the means I want to say this about that again the one I thank the the one I'd certainty of the right-wing any issue is either right or wrong they know for certain where our side it's true we believe in paradox we believe in the multitudes the contradictions that we all live with all day and we're dying to negotiate with someone reasonable anybody coming out immediately too soon saying let's be bipartisan yes but no not with these guys you got to get rid of these guys these are criminals these are criminals and they got to go do you think this is gonna be bad yeah next slide okay we have to read first yes well yes I'll let you read my congratulations to the record numbers of women who rose to the challenge of restoring the balance also last night a star was born Beto O'Rourke a smart and decent guy who very nearly turned Texas blue there are great things in store for this budding mr. Smith and I want to say one thing you know I know you know there's a chance that Hillary might want to run again and there's those types of things going on and there's conflict about that I don't think she would it be a bad president oh I have no no no problems I believe that she knows what she's doing mm-hmm but the the the fact that people are so conflicted about her whether it's right or wrong is a problem mm-hm and we'll lose votes and we'll lose moderates and swing votes and I'm sorry you know I I would love to see him and come on Harris you know do you guys like him I see that as something great because I think she's fantastic I think he's a really really incredible guy and and I would really love for you know in this decade to be able to vote for somebody who isn't the lesser of the evils right no that's what we need this time we cannot we cannot put someone out there then we have to say well as lesser of the evils and I'm not saying she's done anything to to warrant that now's the perception a question informal poll anybody here like that idea of Beto O'Rourke being min the very public spotlight on the national stage i I need to hear what he has to say yeah you know but I like his energy a lot I like his energy a lot and I love that it's drawn in one of the great American beautifu semester Smith goes to Washington well my favorite movies growing up there's Jimmy Stewart there he is right there now and then that's him you know that's when Jimmy was fighting for the truth and that's what we're doing right now we're in that movie yeah yeah I do you know the every day when Trump opens its mouth it's like they wheeled in a bunch of mail that's been faked you know and it looks really bad sometimes every time you get a little bit of a little bit of fresh air you know they it up they taint it with a rageous thing you can't you guys are bad business too you guys are on fire and your president is actually kind of blaming you yeah and that's a really dark thing it seems to me is in New Yorker yeah it's pretty bad dude yeah terrible terrible terrible way to do business first of all he's been corrupted everything he's ever done seven times he's bankrupted he's bankrupted every business has been involved with what what makes anybody in this country think he's not gonna do the same to us financially eventually and moral morally yeah that's what he does next image please okay well speaking of yeah I didn't know this was coming next these things happen that's so funny you've got the trademark T on the high chair right from the beginning he's gonna label everything with that T Ford it and our tyrunt and you know so I see him this way I see him as an underdeveloped human being who's just completely lost and he thinks the way to do business is to come and kick you in the face and then when you pick up yourself up and go cuz you're a decent person and go like Jesus Christ what what was that about then you you know when you start to heal and you go well let's just give him another chance he's being nice now you know I'm I'm sickened by the fact that people are still on television on the news saying if he could just be presidential right he's a bad guy yeah he's a bad guy no he's the guy you fear you don't want him coming into your house in the middle of the night and doing things to your woman and stealing your money he's a bad guy you know anyway so necktie sake is a child next slide and and a rumba oh I love this one the drawing on this one is great it looks like a big pipeline of manure and oil and this is about go ahead Scott Pruett Pruett was an incorrect like you know if you could be more how can you be more obviously corrupt than this man he's just an open sore of corruption and what was his job with the administration or is his job to bring the smog back to LA he's the deal the fish to the Environmental Protection Agency yes he's a vampire and and that's all there's nothing good going on there at all additional he he really bothered me and I needed to do whatever I could do label bad what is the first word I looked on travail Jia what is that is that a California word what is it what word the the fourth word ultra vago no trivago I don't know those travel commercials from hotels and stuff like that this is really annoying guy that I I don't know he's the guy that like divorced his wife at 60 and back out in the world gotta hit the clubs again it seems to me that you do you have any artistic honestly people that you've looked at like our crumb or dramas is interesting because I I did not think of myself as being affected by him but I did I did enjoy his work very much you did extreme and incredible but honest you know I believe it may be sick but I have no idea well that's the thing about radical vulnerability which is what drew me to your work we show our darker cells the six stuff the stuff that you have inside of you all day you - you - and you put it out there for all to see our crumb did it in the 1960s in cartoons you know they keep on truckin cartoon and all that stuff the Grateful Dead stuff and all of that he is just a fantastic stylist and incredible and I got to tell you an hour crumb story that just flipped me out because a couple of couple months ago somebody a friend sent an article about our crumb that he had that I was in his life in that 15 years before he had dreamt about me on like The Tonight Show Wow and I was doing stand-up comedy in his dream and it wasn't going so well and suddenly I just stopped and became silent and didn't move like this like the film had frozen and he said it was the longest time him sitting there going Jim Carrey's frozen is it the filament or whatever what's it gonna do is he's gonna do something crazy is and then in the dream he said my eyes just started rolling up and down and back and forth like that and down and back and forth like this and until the audience was in stitches and he said he woke with the idea that this is a tremendous exercise for his eyes as he had poor eyesight so he adopted it as an exercise that he did every single day of his life he did the Jim Carrey dream I exercise I mean that's that's Fame I don't know it's a little odd but my ego likes it next next image oh my favorite mayor Giuliani's take it a guy that doesn't have presence of mind enough to die the bottom teeth it's that his mouth is the whole administration in a nutshell it's a fake top teeth that shine like diamonds and just this rotten diseased you know root canal central down there it's just eating him from with him you know that you know tooth tooth decay can cause heart attack and insanity I think that explains that it's interesting to have these two big New York characters that New York is always loathed Giuliani and Donald Trump so it's very shocking to like have the grossest energy from our CS Lewis said in the Screwtape Letters I don't know if anybody's ever read that but CS Lewis said in the Screwtape Letters in communication with the demon in hell his minion on earth who was trying to corrupt a person and the minion on earth said great news he's enlisted in the army he's gonna he's gonna be fighting at the front and the demon said you idiot don't you know it takes a lifetime to corrupt the human soul and what did that mean I missed that what that means is we thought he was a good guy because he was in the middle of that disaster when I did what he's supposed to do and he was there it was approximation you know a proximity thing and and and he turned out not to be such a you know a lovely soul you know obviously will do anything he can and say anything he can for power and it's sickening to me so but we find these people out sooner or later they show themselves oh here's where we pay attention I just took a picture of the Houdini star right on the corner yes the street it's one of my favorite uh and Stanley by the way did you ever look at Stanley's work or Mad Magazine of course I used to go in great stuff I used to go into the into the variety store in Canada and I was the kid at the back on the magazine Iraq trying to fold the secret page together you know to see what the bat folded Paige was what the what the reveal was and getting yelled at by the guy behind the counter and I loved Mad Magazine and that was a great time and when a great movie would come out like Apocalypse Now or something and I'd have the take off it was just fantastic I lived for that this is a great drawing of this escapes pewdie yes the great spew Dini who spews lies I mean you know four thousand documented lies in two years doesn't lie that tells a different truth and you couldn't even write the word lie for a thousand times without getting carpal tunnel syndrome and so how is he living in that how could how does a human soul do that to themselves you know just if I knew that every word coming out of my mouth was inauthentic what kind of cancer would that cause inside me right I know and the truth is it only hurts if you got a conscience sociopaths don't feel that right and that's what he is and what that mean that 30 percent of our country is in a sociopath know people who are uninformed and they're they're uninformed and not so good people there's also you know a lot of hate groups that are be encouraged to violence and encouraged to do their worst when the head of a state you know says evils okay guess who rises to the top I know all the good people go because they won't put up with it and all that's left is the safe you know the people who are poisonous yeah the army ants so I guess I get sick of the even the thought that this guy is somehow untouchable and he can go on Fifth Avenue and she a gun and no one will ever it's not true he is touchable his beatable and all of these will be beat and he was because we're better than him this was good this was good yes there was conflict over this a lot of people were like you know you have you checked into Nike man you know cuz everyone writes opposed and all these things like that and I answer was I don't know I didn't research Nike before I supported Colin Kaepernick but I've worn the shoes I still wear the shoes sometimes I I don't know what they are I'm sure like every large organization they become corrupt that's the natural course of things when you protect assets and want to expand at an alarming rates you're gonna hurt and I don't know if they're doing that or not I don't know personally but but I wanted to support one act of goodness you know to encourage an act of goodness and and that's all I was doing with that is encouraging an act of goodness and and also if it's good enough for Colin Kaepernick it's good enough for me amen you know we have to encourage goodness that's how we get more goodness nice companies believe that goodness is a good sales tool then they're going to do good things this drawing is really interesting to me because it exists in three different times if you look very carefully at it the closest in the foreground is the present Colin Kaepernick kind of cut off in these red things of your number seven and then the two figures giving the Black Power salute they two Olympic athletes that of course were like hated and loved in the nineteen late 1960s when they gave the Black Power salute had the cardinal moments on the first and second place winners yeah and you got Jesse Owens and Jesse Owens is in the Far background I think in the 1936 Olympic yeah were held in Berlin and a there was a big show-off moment for the Aryan race yeah and and he just kicked their ass and that's what they're afraid of and Hitler walked out right through that swastika man and and that was a beautiful moment in history but you know it sickens me that we still have to be there how long have we existed how long have we existed we still can't get over each other's skin color yeah who are we african-american people gave me my career make gave me my break they encouraged me and welcomed me and that's how they are yes the african-american community has incredible grace in the face of this this just this cancerous hate they're unbelievable I don't know how they'd haven't burned this country to the ground yeah like I seriously don't but they they haven't because they love and they just want to love and they want to show you the and they have man cuz they have great yeah I want to show I wanna sign there there's a bunch of people sitting there going I don't know chip do you have that you know I don't know that you know why because you didn't grow up in Detroit where there was nothing but what you create for a for joy that's right you know there's nothing but that's right it's we're all sickens me to no end I think everybody shares this and yesterday I went to Michelle macarone gallery and I walked around and I asked and is pretty full all the time and that means you're using your platform the way it should be used or can be used and I asked the viewers there I said do you usually go to galleries and many of the people went no and I said what do you think of this work and I wrote down some of their response I heard you were doing that it took hours because I couldn't stop likes it costing people as they came in it was bad I would have to tell them Jemma costing them but a boom first person I asked said these give me incredible comfort these show how angry I am the next person said if these drawings are showing the other side we see them we hope they can see our pain another person said these are devastatingly on point about America and these were people that split in their relationships husbands and wives that he was Republican she was Democrat he did not vote for Trump but that's them he said it shows how disturbing power is when people start abusing it and he went all these people went on and on I didn't and I found Republicans and they were touched and I was amazed that they didn't just turn on you I wish you would come on to Instagram when there's more love right I believe that's owned by Facebook it's in your Instagram is owned by Facebook I will not be on Instagram people don't know these now we need to stop these billionaires from destroying our culture we really do they have no conscience whatsoever and what they did in the 2016 election is just unconscionable and should be punished and I don't think it's enough to go okay let's regulate them we need to regulate them for sure I'm grooving to be you know somebody we can't count on so we have to do that but also just the billionaire culture in general I mean I don't want to hate anyone I want to hate on anyone but you know what I'm sorry I I could not I mean billion baby I can baby go there but after that shouldn't you be working for the country yes shouldn't you be putting it into the gift wrap into people that need it education things like that why can't we take care of ourselves like Elon Musk wants to make a rocket ship to Mars you better make room for the billionaire's men cuz if they stick around here much longer this way their heads are gonna be on sticks and you all are gonna help send this to in 2020 you promised us right now with a hand of applause and we give you back our love and thank you thank you thank you thank you so much I'm so grateful to you thank you [Applause] [Music]

Channel: Vulture

Views: 22,968

Rating: 4.5957894 out of 5

Keywords: Jim Carrey, Jerry Saltz, Jim Carrey Art, Vulture Festival, Political Art

Id: r5Xl-MkGpX4

Length: 55min 0sec (3300 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 18 2019