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Elegy to the American Republic (tile #12)
laser print, acrylic paint & charcoal on paper mounted on archival mat board,   6″ x 9.25″
This work is signed and dated on the backside.

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The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell if they are being observed or not, thus conveying a “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.” In his own words, Bentham described the Panopticon as “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.”

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