New Art at Just Seeds Collective

Justseeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to both sell their work online in a central location and to collaborate with and support each other and social movements. Our website is not just a place to shop, but also a destination to find out about current events in radical art and culture. Our blog covers political printmaking, socially engaged street art, and culture related to social movements. We believe in the power of personal expression in concert with collective action to transform society.

Here is some new artwork that you can purchase online.

Roger Peet: "Baiji" ($65)
This is the Yangtze river dolphin, known in China as the Baiji. One of the world's few species of freshwater dolphin, and now one with the snows of yesteryear. The Baiji's habitat was destroyed by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam, its prey species were wiped out as a result of overfishing, and it suffered huge losses to boat traffic, pollution, and probably existential malaise. What's so important about this creature? Why should anyone care? These are questions that I pose to myself when making these pieces about extinct animals. These beautiful, graceful creatures were around on this planet for more than ten million years. They lived lives of swift elegance in the muddy Yangtze water, curling and spiralling through the turbidity and chaos of spring floods. They snapped up their meals of fish with their long, toothy beaks clacking like chopsticks. Like many beautiful lost things, they were eliminated not necessarily by human rapaciousness, but by the byproducts of human industrial development and overpopulation. People didn't kill the Baiji off, but they made it impossible for the Baiji to survive. Who is responsible? We all are. This is what we do. Not to beat a dead horse, but the baiji is a victim of humanity. Our essence is this death. We are truly become gods, destroyers of worlds, but we've no need of atomic bombs to do the work; it can be accomplished just as well with simple household tools and a prideful smile. We are the losers, if only because only we can be tortured by the knowledge of what we have done.

Santiago Armengod: "Tus heroes son nuestros enemigos" ($25)

Este grabado es un llamado a informarnos y aprender por nuestros propios medios aquellas historias ya desgastadas por los gobiernos e instituciones. Todas nuestras vidas se nos bombardea visual y psicologicamente con imagenes de supuestos heroes y heroinas de la historia. Esta en nuestras manos decidir si los heroes de las instituciones son tambien nuestros heroes.

This woodcut is a call to educate ourselves by our own means, of all those worn out stories told by the goverment and institutions. We are bombarded our whole lives visually and psychologically with pictures of supposed heroes of history. It lays in our hands the decision to choose if those heroes of the institutions are also our heroes.

Swoon: "Alden" ($400)

This print is adapted from a block print of my grandfather, and all of the money from this one will go to rehabbing the church that is being taken over in Braddock, PA. Transformazium.org is the project website. Silk screened with hand cutting, on dyed paper. Stitched to a sewn paper background.