Bare Arms (The Practice #2)

What are these young men up to now?! This is a loving portrait of the artist’s oh so human son. What parent of boys cannot relate to the testing of budding manhood?

This drypoint is part of a suite of images created for an exhibition at Spaces, Cleveland, on the theme “The Second Amendment: The Black Panther Party.” The title, Bare Arms, is a gentle act of resistance against America’s extraordinarily permissive attitude toward guns and the concomitant violence.