Hak dan Kebebasan Berkarya (malay version)

Justine Lai,seorang dari artis terkenal yang bertapak di San Francisco telah melakarkan wajah bekas presiden Amerika Syarikat,Abraham Lincoln dengan 'oil portraits' beberapa tahun yang lalu.
"In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated. I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that’s strictly pornographicâ€"the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do." petikan daripadanya. Secara dasarnya,ia boleh diterima sebagai salah satu hasil 'seni' dikalangan penduduk Amerika sendiri dan tidak mendapat 'masalah' daripda pihak kerajaan Amerika. Bila agaknya kerajaan Malaysia akan lebih mengambil berat akan nilai-nilai 'seni' sebab apa yang aku nampak,hampir segala hasil-hasil serta buah fikiran dari kalangan artis,seniman,blogger,dan sebagainya salah satu kesalahan yang wajib dihukum.Aku fham kita sebagai sebuah negara Islam masih perlu mengekalkan nilai-nilai sucinya,tapi tidak lah aku bermaksud bebas dari berkarya sampai melepasi batasannya.Tapi sekurang-kurang diberi sedikit 'kelonggaran' terhadap para penggiat apa jua cabang seni untk bebas berkarya.