I MAKE ART FOR PEOPLE ON THE FRONT LINES. That’s my family: a community of activists who are not artists but who want to use art as a weapon. That’s who tells me if something is working and how I can make my art more effective. Some of my work is direct propaganda; some of it is visual journalism.
Art always has to go beyond human health, human drama, and human issues. It has to be about social justice for all animals, including humans. I initially made that connection as a kid in England after World War II, growing up around bombed-out ruins and living next door to a slaughterhouse. As a child, I was forced to see the correlation between war, violence, and fascism, and animal cruelty and abuse. Once I figured that connection out, so early on, I realized that the Other is always at risk.
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What is the simplest thing someone can do to change things for the better?
The easiest to change, is to control what you put in your mouth. If you eat a plant-based diet and remove animal products, you can save millions of animals unbelievable suffering, save the forests, save indigenous people who need the trees and their own land that are now being sacrificed for short-term grazing by the beef barons. You would save in health costs. It's stunning how some people have all these plans for social change but cannot change the simplest thing about themselves.
—interview with Dianne V. Lawrence, Coagula Art Journal, May 1999
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