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Children's art, the old saw goes, has no ethics. That was why we say it was not art. Avida Dollars aka Salvator Dali sought to place himself at war with the squares, does he get a pass for claiming paranoid pscyzoid? He might be in the category of married collaborative artists whose work ought to be considered as it represents the dignity of the partners. Compare to the novels of the married collaboration of Carolyn See. Soviet realism has no conscience. In times of war and stress, the art that protests stays ethical by being both rhetorical and bloody minded. In other words that nobody wants all you have to give. Your gift there in protest was in announcing that there will be the black of night to retreat to, and so it will be unethical to either give your self away or to take no obvious position. Mosby Woods and myself believe you are ethical in announcing the scale of your sybject. In that way, often in the title, the public is forewarned.

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