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Here's a tale of the potency of magic and activism in this new era of globalization possibilities, even in areas divided by religion/culture/commerce.

An homage to the role of art in modern democratic media! Inspired by The Contender. Enjoy, 

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Northern Ireland is settled by Irish Catholic minorities and a British Protestant majority descended from generations of English colonialists. The socioeconomic disparities and resulting unemployment conditions between the Irish Catholic minority and British Protestant majority has created several forms of protest in the modern United Kingdom, some related to the factions/leaders of the Irish Republican Army (e.g., F-IRA, N-IRA, P-IRA).

This is a Catholic portrait of North American sympathizers of this Catholic-minority socioeconomic condition in Northern Ireland that's procreated certain forms of social dissatisfaction and wealth protests. This portrait is meant to encourage more society imagination talk between Catholic and Protestant women living together in Belfast (Northern Ireland) and who might be able to use the 'social spark' of art to address the idealistic notion that spirituality-based art/photography can create new forms of democratic/pluralism dialogue, perhaps even inspired by American comic book artworks (e.g., Catwoman)!

Imagine women in Northern Ireland watching Catholic/Protestant kids in the schoolyards/streets play with toy machine-guns and mimic the actions of guerrilla-men and British police-military acting out their frustrations in the modern UK! What if these women start to think about the quality of the feminine mystique and the role women might play in the proliferation of imaginarium magazines that encourage more commerce/lifestyle-gauged forms of inter-religious peace and play-spaces!

The male leader of this social program in Belfast is Dr. Amlan Satan, himself an Algerian-American with family-heritage relations with prominent diplomatic leaders from Algeria. Satan's worked with Interpol-relations in Africa to reduce blood-diamond smuggling from conflict-zones creating rogue forms of criminal resourcing. Now, he's working as a social activist in Northern Ireland (UK) to create this special 'wall-mural' of artworks focusing on the photos/portraits of minority Catholic women who seek to be re-presented in social media as messengers of inter-faith coops. Dr. Satan is given the Belfast media nickname Storm-Shadow!

STORM-SHADOW: We're taking historical images of canonical women involved in this Catholic-minority dilemma about money.

The women recruited for this lifestyle-art diorama will or may be posed in special Eastern sarees or Western balaclavas or even some rabbit-masks, all signifying their special magazine-media role as 'red-angels' of an inter-faith media message about the value of commerce/capitalism in promoting peace in this 20th-anniversary year of 9/11.

DR. SATAN: There's plenty of images in the news from yesteryear regarding UK 'Troubles' sometimes involving women!

The media murals/presentations will also include iconic images of historic engagements between Irish and British forces in the United Kingdom that revealed a deepening rift within the two largest denominations of the world Christian community.

Dr. Satan also has family-relations from the Quit India movement and uses Indian flag-art to infer the natural splendor of Irish culture/flags/symbols for this community art project. In fact, he's showing the film Gandhi to Catholic and Protestant schoolchildren for Easter Sunday!

DR. SATAN: We've taken some impressive images of women from India serving as guerrilla/police.

CRITIC: This art initiative in modern Northern Ireland reminds one of the Mummers Parade in America or some Samhain thing.

DR. SATAN: We stress the importance of remaining austere/cold about the real darkness surrounding inter-faith violence.

There's been a long history of women involved with the IRA. However, in recent times in Northern Ireland, following the partition of mainland Ireland into capital cities Dublin and Belfast, the female involvement became much more troubling. These historic images from Ireland's past therefore represent a storied/sentimental throwback folklore regarding a natural Irish Catholic yearning to see all Catholics in Ireland somehow (hopefully through peaceful Catholic-Protestant commerce!) united.

DR. SATAN: We want audiences to have good access, especially students, to key works about Northern Ireland for school.

CRITIC: We believe the use of the 'red-angel' as a monotype/avatar for this social art initiative symbolizes democracy.

In fact, Dr. Satan, who's connected with the Catholic university Seton Hall, believes the red-angel is a modernized rendition of classic Renaissance-era artworks by Raphael capturing a natural sensuousness about the allure of symbolic vitality.

DR. SATAN: Our models aren't messengers of the Irish Republican Army but rather 'red-angels' of inter-faith peace-works!

Some of the artworks/photos include the models in masks symbolizing the social advocacy for the cessation of blood-diamond smuggling into the UK which is financing all forms of underworld crimes that add to the socioeconomic squalor of Northern Ireland, with its Catholic and Protestant communities terribly divided!

DR. SATAN: We've even recruited Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams to approve these models as 'red-angels' of ancient democracy!

CRITIC: You get this eerie feeling the models somehow might be 'avenging angels' furious about the failure of capitalism.

Dr. Satan sometimes himself poses for some of the photos and mosaics, so he may present himself as a modern Andy Warhol of figurine-fashions, intending to re-present the fearful women of the United Kingdom as potential 'red-angel' messengers of a newfound sense of commerce-driven social networking...and peace.

DR. SATAN: We're using a red-haired American comic book paramilitary/patriot superheroine to symbolize political dollars.

DR. SATAN: The ultimate Utopian vision is to see Catholic/Protestant women in Belfast attend church in safety/peace.

"Can art really cure the deep hellish scars of inter-religious schisms in modern times? Our art is meant to convince the world that it certainly can create innovative forms of UK distancing-reduction" (Dr. Satan).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)