This I Believe

Norman Strike, artist

born 1949

This I Believe, 1989

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: linocut

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 517 x 640 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 20 3/8 x 25 3/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 617 x 758 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 24 5/16 x 29 13/16 in
Frame Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 30 1/4 x 36 1/4 x 1 in
Weight (Weight): 10 lbs

Credit line: Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund

Accession number: 1990.0012

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Visible and Divisible America: In Conversation with the 2019–2020 KU Common Book

In this work, political printmaker Norman Strike quotes a passage from William Faulkner’s 1948 novel Intruder in the Dust. Lines such as “Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame...” relate to racism in the context of the novel. These lines of text appear like graffiti on a brick wall surrounding an urban scene of homelessness.

Visible and Divisible America: In Conversation with the 2019–2020 KU Common Book

Exhibition Label:
"Printed Art and Social Radicalism," Jun-2002, Stephen Goddard
This I Believe is a print about homelessness. Strike intended the text, a passage from William Faulkner, to resemble graffiti on a brick wall. He also described this print as “a ravaged, urban image, a sign of protest and anger; yet the graffiti is a sign of determination.”