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2025

Post ConstitutionalEleven years after the Declaration of Independence was written in 1776, the Constitution established three branches of government, legislative, executive and judicial, to create a system of checks and balances and to prevent one branch from becoming too powerful. In 1789, ten amendments to the Constitution were ratified as the Bill of Rights and in the succeeding 235 years it has been amended only 17 times -- abolishing slavery, promising freedom and equality, and extending the right to vote to women and African Americans. A “Post Constitutional” movement contends that these amendments have destroyed the constitution by treating it as a living document which can be modified and that truly radical measures are needed to restore the family as the centerpiece of American life; dismantle the administrative state; defend the nation's sovereignty and borders; and secure “God-given individual rights to live freely”. To accomplish these radical measures requires the implementation of a “unitary executive theory”, consolidating power in the office of the President. The “unitary executive theory” places the entire federal bureaucracy under direct presidential control and abolishes or restructures agencies such as the Federal Reserve, Department of Justice, Department of Education and FBI, replaces government employees with political appointees, redraws the boundaries of citizenship, deports immigrants, imposes tariffs on foreign goods and cuts taxes on corporations and high wealth individuals.Overthrowing the existing constitution and consolidating power in the presidency challenges democracy as we know it and risks enshrining a dictator. May we avoid this extreme.Post Constitutional is 6.375" x 4.375" closed and 79” open with 18 pages, concertina bound. It is housed in a box 6.5” x 5”. The quilt-like collaged images incorporate fragments of U.S. founding documents. It is a variable edition of two with the page, cover and box images similar but different.

PardonOn January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capital was attacked. More than 140 police officers were injured and at least 7 people died as a result.Nearly 1,600 were charged in connection with the attack and over 1,000 pled guilty.The median sentence was 60 days with longer incarceration for violent crimes. Other sentences included home detention, probation, restitution and community service.Fourteen members of far-right extremist groups, charged with seditious conspiracy, were sentenced from 7 to 22 years. On January 20, 2025 their sentences were commuted and the nearly 1,600 people charged received “full, complete and unconditional" pardons. All in prison were released.The Justice Department was directed to dismiss 300 pending cases. Absolved from consequences, criminal activity is emboldened.Pardon is 7.75" x 5.75” closed, with 12 pages of collaged images, leparello bound. The cover is collage over bookboard with metal type and shield.

Malaria
Malaria was believed to be caused by “bad air”, somehow associated with warmer weather and proximity to water. Its symptoms typically include fever, fatigue, vomiting and headaches and in severe cases, jaundice, seizures, coma or death.

In the early 1600s, malaria infected settlers and indigenous peoples and by 1750 had spread across the inhabited territories of what is now the U.S. It was not until the 1850’s that an infectious microorganism, carried by mosquitoes, was identified as the cause.

Worldwide in the 20th century, malaria was responsible for between 150 and 300 million deaths although, in the 1930s and early 1940s, insecticides, window screens and improved drainage to eliminate mosquito breeding areas were proven to be effective in the U.S.

During those depression years, my parents lived in the swamps north of Mobile, Alabama trapping alligators, possum and racoons. My mother was infected with malaria, treated with quinine and eventually returned to nursing. My father became a policeman and I was born in 1940.

Malaria was officially eradicated from the U.S. in 1951 but more than 40% of the world’s population remains vulnerable. In sub-Saharan Africa malaria kills 600,000 people a year, with 95% being children less than five years old. Although vaccines are now available, with more under development, malaria has been one of the most devastating diseases in human history.

Malaria is 4” x 4” with 14 pages of digital images and text over gelatin prints, drum-leaf bound. The front and back covers are fused glass with image visible through the transparent areas. It is a variable edition of two with the pages essentially the same in both editions but the two covers, shown, are unique.

Drain the Swamp
Drain the swamp, remove the water
and the creatures that live in marshy areas.

Drain the swamp,
address our societal ills,
rid our institutions
of corruption,
differing political perspectives,
economic ideologies
and the creatures that breed there.

When you’re
up to your neck
in alligators,
it’s hard to remember
your initial objective was to
drain the swamp.

Drain the Swamp is 6” x 4” with 28 pages, eco printed with transferred text, Coptic bound. The cover is lead solder over copper with metal plate.

words matter
Tipped into the rear of the book with a list of the words, the text of “words matter” reads:
“Diversity, equity and inclusion” efforts in the Federal Government are seen to be at odds with “merit” and result in the “discriminatory elevation of unqualified, undeserving people”. All policies, activities, programs, preferences, and mandates referring to DEI, are being ended and governmental agencies are being purged of “woke” initiatives.

Hundreds of words and phrases have been identified by the government to flag, limit or avoid in proposals, documents, publications, websites and other materials. And, to ensure alignment with government protocols, laws and regulations, companies are implementing similar policies.

Although there are governmental variations, 197 excluded words are presented, degraded.

Words matter.

words matter is 7.5” x 5.5”, sewn binding, 141 pages with 197 transferred words. The font used is impact. The cover is cloth over board with an embossed metal title plate.

net zero
The text of net zero reads:
In the burning of fossil fuels, Carbon dioxide (CO2), a greenhouse gas, is the major cause of global warming, trapping heat in the atmosphere.

The warming will only stop when the greenhouse gases going into the atmosphere are balanced by removal out of the atmosphere – net zero.

To reach net zero by 2050, The International Energy Agency proposes to limit the increase in warming to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F) by focusing on renewable energy sources like solar and wind.

The U.S., the world’s largest producer of oil and gas and the second largest producer of greenhouse gasses, is promoting the further development of oil, natural gas and coal, revoking climate -related policies and withdrawing from the Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

net zero is 8” x 5”, pamphlet bound with 20 collaged pages. The front and back covers are fused glass.

Detention
Inside the front and back covers, the text reads:
The South Florida Detention Facility, deep in the Everglades west of Miami, and surrounded by 39 square miles of swampland teaming with alligators and pythons, is known as Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum-security federal penitentiary. In July 2025, without public input or an environmental impact assessment, it was hastily constructed on the site of a 1968 Jetport, abandoned due to environmental concerns after completing just one runway. Built by the state of Florida at a cost $218 million and operated by private contractors and federal and state agencies, the facility will require an estimated $450 million a year to house the projected population of 5,000 detained immigrants.
While a penitentiary only locks up convicted criminals, half of the people detained have no criminal record, and fewer than 30% have been convicted of any crime. They are held without charges and have no access to legal counsel. Overcrowding, inadequate access to medical care, insufficient food, unsanitary conditions, and wastewater overflows have all been documented.
The area, home to the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians and numerous endangered plants and animals, is vulnerable to water pollution from construction and sewerage and is subject to frequent bouts of extreme weather, including annual hurricanes, heavy rainfall, and high heat.
Lawsuits have been filed by environmental and civil rights groups, including Friends of the Everglades, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Americans for Immigrant Justice. In August 2025, a federal judge in Miami ordered the detention facility closed, but operations continued after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary pause on the order in September 2025.
As legal battles continue, the outcomes for the immigrants and the environment are uncertain.
Detention is a flutter book, 6.25” x 4.25” closed and 6.25” x 102” open, with 24 pages, block-printed on the interior with images of the Everglades and on the rear with the Latitude, 27°59'17"N, and Longitude, 82°27'38"W, of The South Florida Detention Facility, referred to as Alligator Alcatraz. The cover is cloth over board. ¬¬

Las Virgenes
The text of Las Virgenes reads:
On the feast day of Saint Ursula, October 21, in 1493, Cristopher Columbus named the islands he claimed, Santa Ursula y las Once Mil Vírgenes (Saint Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins), shortened to las Vírgenes (the Virgins).
According to legend, this Romano-British princess and her virgin attendants, who may have numbered 11 or 11,000, were attacked and murdered by Huns near Cologne while on a pilgrimage to Rome. Despite the historical accuracy of the story, Ursula's legacy as a patron saint of women, girls, education, students and the Virgin Islands remains strong.

Originally inhabited by the Arawak and Carib, many of whom are thought to have perished during the colonial period due to enslavement and disease, the 60 islands have variously been claimed by Spain, Great Britain, the Netherlands, France, Denmark and the United States.

The majority of the island population today are descendants of slaves brought from Africa to work the colonists sugar plantations. The current economy is reliant on tourism, trade and financial services.

Las Virgenes is 5” x 4.25”, sewn binding. Images of the virgins from paintings throughout history are collaged onto 54 irregularly shaped, eco-printed pages. The cover is paper over board.

Dorothy Simpson Krause • 800 Lakeside Circle #605, Pompano Beach, FL 33060 • 781 424 5276 • DotKrause@DotKrause.com