Author: Philipos Hailemichael

TRANSCRIPT Kim In our last episode, we began by talking about how we live under many different justice systems- through family, school, work, and society, and then Philipos, you brought up how there’s also a justice system within the self, and reminded us of your understanding of justice as being an unlocking and opening up. Philipos Yes, and that brought up your Opening the Door artwork, and we began talking about each of the pieces from the perspective of the justice system within the self. The symbols in the artwork gave us a lot of complex ideas to reflect on, and so we decided to pause, and continue talking about the rest of the work in Part 2. Let’s pick up where we left off and look at the next artwork. This one with the glasses…What is its name? Kim This one is The Caller, Philipos The Caller. Good. Right… Continue reading

TRANSCRIPT: Philipos In Today’s podcast, we’ll begin a series of conversations on our different justice systems, and what role love and opening up plays in them. So, we have how many examples? Like 10? Yeah. Kim Well, first of all, usually, if you say “justice system,” a listener thinks of something run by the government. So, it might be a combination of the municipal courts, the police officers, the jails, the state-run prison system, and including all the lawyers and court staff, and then on into the federal justice system. I think usually when people say or hear the phrase “justice system” they’re thinking of that formal governmental system. When I began the artwork on justice, I started to rethink what a justice system really was, and to realize that the governmental system is just one justice system, but we actually live by a lot of different justice systems in… Continue reading