"Breathe Free" (shown above) is a new papercut in my exhibition, "Women of Valor and Other Super Heroes," now showing at National Council of Jewish Women / Los Angeles through November 30, 2015. This was inspired by my wife's Rosh HaShanah sermon about the Syrian refugee crisis.
The original Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers, has recently “passed the torch” to a young Muslim immigrant from Pakistan. Both dedicate themselves to the ideas of peace and freedom, and the message carved in stone at the foot of the Statue of Liberty — words written by the Jewish poet, Emma Lazarus. This papercut explores the idea of America as a nation of immigrants, with a changing demographic of people all committed to the same ideals: refuge and liberty for all.
This papercut, like all of my work, is made with cut-up comic books, including:
- Avengers [Free Comic Book Day] #1 (Jun 2015)
- Captain Marvel #1 (Nov 2015)
- Ms. Marvel #15 (Mar 1978)
- Ms. Marvel #1 (Oct 2014)
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