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David Barthold

May 5, 2026

5:09
[laughs]
5:10
But it's really just sort of like, "Oh, I wanna just be part of this.
5:13
I wanna be part of this historical moment and add my voice, you know, to the conversation visually." And honestly, it's a little bit odd because the political, sort of the commemorative ones that I did, for example, George Floyd or John Lewis or Ruth Bader Ginsburg or AOC, that I put up, were really responsive.
5:33
They weren't part of my art practice at all.
5:35
I don't, I don't consider portraiture to be part of my art practice at all.
5:38
I had been putting things up.
5:41
There's a claw image that I'd been putting up for a while before that.

22 MINS LATER

28:14
It's crazy to me that a school could stop the foundational parts, you know? It's crazy.

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