Corporate Terrorist is a word I used back in 2001 during the Enron and Aurthur Anderson creative accounting system failures. My son and son -in -law worked for Enron, luckily my son had some early premonition and abandoned ship prior to the fall. Where as my son-in-law was caught in the disaster, survived several cut backs. Then transferred around for awhile all the time fearing the visit of the pink slip card board box team and finally found work elsewhere. Meanwhile the executives slipped out back, as insiders do, with most of the goods,then later where caught and slapped on the wrist.

As I remember, in the Summer of 2001 G.W. Bush  invited some of the very people involved in US corporate scandals to a economic summit at Baylor University in Waco. Bush was on vacation at his ranch in near by Crawford, Texas. World Com, Enron and other wealthy business executives, about 200 key economic Republicans in all where invited (Democrats where blocked out). At the same time Terrorism was active around the world.

A vision came to me that a terrorist wears many different garmets including the three piece type. I began gathering found objects immediately, I wanted to get a point to these arogant people who where meeting just up the road from my place in central Texas.I had three days to come up with a piece of art that represented my vision. This was to be  debut for the  sculpture. I sensed we had just felt the tip of the iceberg of this corporate Terrorsim I was ”pissed off” read full of e-motion or energy that needed to be transmuted into constructive art with intention instead of unconsciously letting it out somewhere else. I began a sculpture called “Corporate Terrorist”. So I had vision, energy and a target date. This was a great creative process because for all practical purposes I became an “Artistic Terrorist” in the process.  Here is a Photograph of this Two Faced Archetype that was channeled through me in this wonderful process called art.

Notice the Attache case has a time clock. That’s because I installed two bundles of fake dynamite. Which we all know to familiar today, represents the explosive power available to Shadowy Business practices. Also the handle to the case is a flashlight with another George picture in the lens. That’s right George Washington on the good old dollar bill. Also on top  near  the focus point of the light are  clock faces cut into 3 different quarters representing our economic obsession with quarterly reports.  There is No Sustainability when the focus is on  short term bottom lines: rather than what the next seven generations might need to survive. Next to the Quarters you will find a Aurthur Anderson stainless steel ruler complete with numbers that look like this 1,2,3,7,5,11,16,89,4 you get the idea.

 Things just don’t seem to ad up. Sound Familiar!  On the back side of the brief case is a flame painting of Icarus from Greek mythology. Who’s father Daedalus a technological prodigy of the times crafted a way to escape the Isle of Crete where they where both confined by Minos. Well the only way off was to fly so Daedalus built some wings made of eagle feathers and wax. The plan gave them both rapid height then the son crashed being forewarned by dad to not go to high (like the Dow on Derivatives or Standard and Poor’s AAA rating on sub prime mortgage backed securities). The plan was flawed seems paw had a good idea but he was doomed to fail because  he never  was taught either,  about the connection between head and heart. Oh he warned his son not to go to high or the sun would melt his wings  but  he couldn’t warn his son of the most dangerous thing to control of the flight, his Ego.  So, son drunk on the excileration let it go to his head,  where the heart is not.  So nearer the suns heat (light of Day) the truth came throuth the facade. Heroic audacity. Hubris oh how I love that word and hate it when I am in it.  In another myth Psychologist  James Hillman updates the fable of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” Dr. Hillman critiques today’s materialist economics, mechanistic science and his own field of psychology. He sites today’s science with a “progressivist fantasy” which ignores our culture’s sickness.j

Well I don’t think it is only our (USA) culture  alone here. The fact that we where all linked in this Economic Scam around the world shows it to be more than a cultural thing it is a Human Shadow both individually and collective at play here.

Some have said the sculpture  looks allot like a bald Ken Lay and maybe it depicts  him too. The real truth will most likely come forth as I write about it here in days to come, so stay tuned.