LOVE THE FUTURE: Free Ai Weiwei
I created this poster resembling Shepard Fairey’s OBEY GIANT campaign in order to help raise awareness for then-incarcerated artist and activist Ai Weiwei in early 2011.
The text translates to “Love The Future,” which was adopted in solidarity, as well as to evade firewalls and censorship because it is very similar to the Mandarin sound and spelling of his name.
Fairey, when interviewed said, “I think the poster is great . . . I have been following the Ai Weiwei situation sympathetically and I am a strong advocate of social justice in my own work, so I like and support the poster Andrew made.”
REFERENDUM 74: Love Wins In The End
I created this handwritten piece to highlight the passing of Referendum 74 in Washington State on election night, 6 Nov 2012, to show my support for Equal Rights, that all citizens be treated equal under the law.
As civil issues throughout history have shown, at the end of the day justice does prevail and love does win.
