Song of the spring
In the day and age of the ‘articulate’ artist, Muhammad Atif Khan does his utmost to keep his message short and simple: “It must be from the heart”. For Khan, that statement is like a mantra. He unapologetically rails against conceptualism in any form. His stance, like his work, is deliberately naïve and simplistic. His career has been a careful balancing act between a dilettante and a careerist. Khan’s recent suite of digital prints titled,
More Love Songs, rests on a self-created mythology of simplicity, friendship and adventure where he often swerves into the realms of social and political statement.
the rich have definitely gotten richer and a lot of them live in new york and a lot of them pay big taxes and they work in the financial industry. yeah. it s a great point. what do you make of that? i would say the reason his message worked is because it s true. listen, if trickle-down worked, we would be swimming in it right now, wouldn t we? we wouldn t have these problems. i didn t argue that in fact, i argued the opposite. i m not cuaccusing you of su. but if the conservative trickle-down idea worked we would be swimming in it, wouldn t have these problems. and then when we asked them how would they address income inequality, they would say you can t. there is nothing that can be done. the invisible hand of free market jesus will sort that out for us. it doesn t work that way. if it did, we wouldn t have these problems. so to me, it s a common sense issue. everybody is going broke. whichever politician could figure out how to sell a solution to the public, that guy is goi
in any event, certainly open to a jury question as it relates to that. it s as consistent with the victim defending himself as it is with the defendant and his version. there is this supposedly horrific struggle during which the defendant claims at various points in time he sustained, i don t know, 30 punches, 25 slams of his head to the concrete, all this screaming going on, his hand fighting and everything else, the straddling and yet the murder wound is a single, perfectly straight, perfectly calibrated shot straight through the heart. the defendant is either the luckiest, most level headed cool marksman in the world or something else is going on here. there is john good is relied upon in great part by the
tea pulling it out but drawing it back. again, certainly open to a jury question as it relates to that. it is consistent with the victim defending himself as it is with the defendant in his version. there is this supposedly horrific struggle during which the defendant claims that at various points in time he sustained, i don t know, 30 punches, 25 slams of his head to the concrete, all of this screaming going on and his hand fighting and everything else, the straddling and yet the murder wound is a perfectly straight, perfectly calibrated shot straight through the heart. the defendant is either the luckiest most levelheaded and cool marksman in the world or
testimony. the blood would go back. they brought up that today, very smart. that is true. you have to assume every drop of blood after he got punched. the prosecution is relying on those questions to kind of raise a doubt about we are getting into minutia. look at the testimony of the one eyewitness. straddling trayvon straddling zimmerman, the mma style, fists going down, screams coming from zimmerman. the key issue about that today. the witness said, hey, i heard those cries coming from the lighter-skinned individual on the ground. that is zimmerman. he s the one saying i yelled for help. i was scared, yelling for help. that s when i reached for my gun and i agree with pete. classic self-defense. classic self-defense. and mr. good gave this compelling testimony. ground and pound as if it were