Illustration Friday: Gag Order

"Gag Order" Inks on Paper / 2007

"Obsession" is Illustration Friday's theme today.  I've been obsessed this week with Freedom of Speech.  This month, the artistic community here in Tennessee has come under fire about our new State Law banning citizens from posting "potentially offensive" images to the internet.

I responded to this new law with a Portrait of the man who signed this law into effect, our Governor Bill Haslam.

Click HERE to view this new portrait in defiance of State Law and leave me your feedback about the law and how art can be illegal.  

What is more Offensive? A violation of our Civil Liberties or Art?

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