Source: CounterPunch
by Troy Nahumko
“Absence can be louder than presence: art as scar tissue, a kind of civic PTSD etched into the building’s DNA. You don’t stand before it so much as recoil from it — as if the courthouse itself were guilty, caught in the act, trying to scrub the blood off its own hands. Yet the spot remains. And maybe that’s the real exhibition — not the art itself, but the cleanup. The ritual of erasure. Because from London to Los Angeles, from Gaza’s rubble to Spain’s granite roundabouts; power’s first instinct isn’t to confront its reflection, it’s to sandblast it. Empires launder their conscience like they launder their money: offshore, and out of sight.” (10/16/25)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/censorship-is-chaos-disguised-as-order/