By Dirk Hagner
San Juan Capistrano, California: Inkswine Press, 2021. Edition of 20.
6.25 x 6.5 x .375 inches closed (16 x 16.5 x 1 cm); 13 1/8 x 6.5 x 6 inches open (33.3 x 16.5 x 15.25 cm). 9 colors, two-sided screen prints on black paper. Duplex green / dark-gray cover boards. Bound with Kraftex leather strip. Signed and numbered by the artist.
Dirk Hagner: "Systemic racism has been with our country before its independence. Not even to mention genocide and slavery. All these were part of the founder's principles of thought and the foundation of our county's economy from its start. Despite of a civil war fought and won against slavery, racism in the United States is rampant and ubiquitous.
"However, this is not only an American issue, it is a huge worldwide human problem."
Half of the artist's proceeds will go to the Southern Poverty Law Center.