Paul Angert
Paul Angert is a Cleveland/Chicago-based Catholic artist currently studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Artist Statement:
20x20x16
Materials:
steel, magnets, cotton line
Whispers are the screams of a people who fear
that soon they shall be discovered.
Made prey to the ones that pray
for a new life, never to be recovered.
Souls weighed with scale,
a currency, imported and deported.
Beyond the shroud of life’s end veil
all shall be sorted.
Both predator and prey are deaf though,
to the people of silence who lay below.
For those that live and breathe now are too weak to be stirred
by the cordless symphonies of ones unheard.
The day of the silent people shall soon fade to dusk.
A night of erasure, violence, extinction.
Silence void of silence shall rise the next day.
Surely it will be deafening.
So listen,
Listen to the whispers and screams of the silent people.