Artist Tom Szewc painted “Life in Chaos” between the years 2018 to 2019 because as he said, ” I wanted to express the racial inequality and tension I felt in America”. It was time to open up the dialogue and to pull back the curtain on the use of a skin color as a scientific hypothesis to politically differentiate and discriminate.
This triptychs composed of three panels. Each painting measures 66″x 54″ . The total length of each triptych is 54″x 198″ ( or 16.5′ ).
“Life in Chaos” was painted as a contrast to “Life in Progress”. I painted life in progress while living for over 15 years in the Chicago area. It just seemed like life was full of social progress. Then in 2015 the bottom fell out. The beginning of the great divide. By 2016, following a spate of high-profile deaths of black Americans during encounters with police and protests by the Black Lives Matter movement and other groups, many Americans especially blacks described race relations as generally bad. And from my perspective it was back to 1968 in Philadelphia where I grew up. Forty-eight years later and the same crap all over again. How could that be? When will we get over the skin color obsession in America. Man’s inhumanity to man because of the substance melanin. Please educate yourself on the root of human prejudice and you will see the ridiculousness of black, white, yellow or whatever.
Tom Szewc
