Making anti fascist t-shirts for the zine fair

I am creating a screen-print inspired by the balaclava of evil prop from the board game War Against Terror by Terrorbull Games. It's an anti fascist statement,  because if I'm not talking about this as an artist right now then what the fuck am I talking about.

I used Photoshop to edit a stock photo of person wearing a balaclava plus a photo of the evil balaclava from the board game, merging the 2. I then applied a fine round bitmap to the image to give it an even more punk/ low-fi quality. At this point I think it's fair to say that my thirst for bitmapping is unquenchable.

I decided to create two separate screens, one for the main image which, will be black, and one for the lettering, which will be red. I might print a few cheeky pink evil letter ones too.

I decided last minute to blow up the image larger than originally planned, because it gives it more drama and impact.

I had to align the print up with where I wanted it on the t-shirt before I set it on the screen. This is because I am going to do a big run using a print carousel and so the screen needs to be set in the right place. And it looks great on the screen.

But.

I changed my mind after this first curing process.

On reflection, I want to give the image more political context and gravity, because the current rise in fascist and neo-nazi politics requires it be so.

“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trails 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

Quotation: Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials.

So I've decided to put this text underneath the image:

After testing loads of fonts, I settled on one that has a typewriter aesthetic, which instantly transports the viewer to a bygone era, making the piece feel vintage and authentic.

I've printed out the design again, this time with the text, and will set the screen up to print next week.