broken clay fragments, book of mourning (Japanese stb binding), 11×17” poster; 9”w x 9”d x 7”h pottery, 18×12”

“My body asked my spirit “how could their rage be more intense, against the beauty of being to which we aspire, attempting to destroy what seems to them merely puny and useless? Who has the right to destroy this earth and the living creatures on it and think it good?” Beware of such a rage.”

ARTIST BIO: Over half way through her 70th decade, in this Snakes and Ladders game-board world we live in, it has been painful for Ann Leader to look back, hope no longer easy. She struggles, but cannot stay stuck. She found a voice as an advocate for justice in the 1960s in the US, her hands as an artist in apartheid South Africa in the 1970s. Art is a source of inspiration, protection, an alternative language in the face of injustice.