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Artist’s Remarks “Irony 360°…when you positively, absolutely need to out nigger every nigger in America”: -Carmine Nigliano 1. My intents are exhibition twenty or more large format posters instructional, yet respectfully appropriate images. In addition, viewers will be asked to take an exhibition survey, and provided guess to record comments. These responses may be used anonymously in future artworks. The educational value my work is to agitate realities as they are and advocate, animate imagination to create more just realities. Strong-T is a visual tour through the mind of an alter-ego Agit Pop, ironic, political art agitator. Mr. Pop ask: “Who is we, in and outside the art-box? What can you live with, realities staring down from gallery walls or a no look pass to the gift shop? Let’s face it, the solidarity is the only effective means to get power and money’s foot peoples necks. So, let’s the poke bear. What can you live with? Artful décor or visual defamation of the business of business, American interest.” The work you see isn’t everyone’s taste, some pieces are just wrong, downright offensive to myself and others. They sometimes miss their mark. These visual artistic puns live by the credo, “if it’s funny you get a pass” (within inches of your life). When Johnathan Winters was asked what frightened him most, he replied: “Men and women who are humorless.” I laugh at myself in others with the emphatic buffoonery of a black man caught between the greater good and immediate justice. Serigraphs such as Flap Jackson’s Black Lives Matter Pancake Mix and Blue on Black Crimes Matter, Medicare for all, come from a land of slogans through the teeth of ventriloquists…”my country tis of thee.” Wordplay taunts images demanding, “what does that look like?” For this reason, images are ideas: dangerous to the public good. They can undermine and unravel reality’s status quo. Strong-T posters are exhibitable in adult full-strength images and or child safe redacted text as judged appropriate by the gallery. “Solidarity wanted, saviors need not apply”: Anonymous Phil Robinson aka Niggy Pop, aka Agit Pop 1 Paraphrased monologue , Director/writer, Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown, 1997.