About the work
Who Fucked Our Ideals – 2003
Artist: Martine Jacobs Medium: Digital composition on paper Theme: Lost ideals, cultural memory, protest art
Description:
Martine Jacobs, a true child of the seventies, once journeyed through the East with her husband — no luggage, just spirit. Like many cultural hippies of her time, she carried Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse and The Lord of the Rings as sacred companions. The world then shimmered with ideals: peace, freedom, compassion, cosmic unity.
Years later, in 2003, Martine looked back and asked: What remains of our ideals? In response, she created this digital protest piece. Using the iconic LP cover of the Woodstock film — once a symbol of hope — she overlaid it with raw graffiti: “Who Fucked Our Ideals”. The phrase is scrawled in red, urgent and uneven, like a scream across history.
The background pulses with layered imagery: anti-war slogans, political critique, and fragments of cultural memory. This work is not nostalgic — it’s confrontational. It mourns the betrayal of a generation’s dreams and reclaims protest as art.
Who Fucked Our Ideals is both a question and a wound. A digital relic of resistance. A mirror held up to time.
Specifications
| Publisher | Martine Jacobs |
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