A REIMAGINING OF LAND AND POWER: CRITCHLEY’S FLAGrant ECOLOGICAL RECKONING

By Lee Roscoe6 min read
Critchley
Jay Critchley, Democracy of the Land, tarred + feathered, 2024, 10’ x 15’.

Jay Critchley is a national treasure.

A uniquely original activist and conceptual artist based in Provincetown whose work embodies the rebellious social conscience of the 1960s, Critchley is always voiced with irony and sly wit.

He’s adopted an ecological conscience aware of the interconnectedness of all beings on the planet, asking what is our relationship to the land and how does that define us? To that end he skewers the dominant culture’s colonialism and corporatism, critiquing our often-carnivorous versions of alleged patriotism and democracy with his various media.

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