Social Murder

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Artist: Kate Kretz

Title: Social Murder

Attribution: Social Murder

Year: 2020

Materials: deconstructed MAGA hats, cotton, thread

Dimensions: 5 x 8.5 x 4"

Image Statement: From the MAGA Hat series. I cut up individual MAGA letters and pieced them together to make the new text on a mask made from deconstructed MAGA hats.. "Social Murder" is a term coined by Friedrich Engels referring to the unnatural death that occurs due to social, political, or economic oppression. "The class which at present holds social and political control"... "places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death," In this case, Trump's approach to/denial of Covid.