NOMORESILENCE Books
1st Book:
NOMORESILENCE
Now: The Truth in David's Sling! (1)
The 50 best Truths for David’s Sling
Paintings, and Essays by Students fighting for Justice.
is part of the global NoMoreSilence project, aimed at recovering unlawfully taken money and inspiring the "small" to stand up against the "big", with the support of the public. As part of the project, the student essay competition (Now: The Truth in David's Sling!) is underway. The book will feature the 50 best student essays, each accompanied by an illustration interpreting a modern encounter between David and Goliath from a contemporary humanistic perspective, drawing insights from the NoMoreSilence case while keeping the EU country and its company anonymous.
These essays will serve as intellectual tools in our Moral Arbitration phase and upcoming Public Tribunal, directly empowering global citizens to evaluate the ethical responsibility of the involved EU country and its corporation, and supporting our ongoing pursuit of justice.
Work on the first book is currently in progress.
2nd Book:
NOMORESILENCE
Now: The Truth in David's Sling! (2)
Goethe has spoken 50 times
Paintings, and Essays by Students fighting for Justice.
is also an integral part of the public debate envisioned by the NoMoreSilence project. It will feature the 50 best student essays, each accompanied by a selected illustration (from 50 available), depicting a post-fight scene in a modern reinterpretation of David and Goliath. Unlike the first book, this volume will be more specific, as the identity of the EU country and its company will be revealed. The essays will not only analyze the case but also present Goethe’s thoughts and message for today’s public, offering a reflective and intellectual contribution to justice and morality in contemporary society.
Artistic-Intellectual Social Experiment
Both books are conceptualized as artistic-intellectual social experiments, where the freedom of expression of essay authors aims to initiate a new social rhetoric, bringing the essay format back to the center of the most important current social events. Each essay author’s freedom to choose an accompanying illustration for their essay will reveal an invisible, inspiring link between the chosen illustration and the arguments used in the essay.
On this basis, the book will, on one hand, be a collection of intellectual expressions in essays, filtered through strong competitive selection, and on the other, artistic visual interpretations of the contemporary encounter between David and Goliath. Despite the existence of proposition elements for illustrations, significant differences between the illustrations will emerge, making the authors' affinities for specific illustrations a selection criterion based on the overall impression the illustration leaves concerning the author’s essay profile and content.
Selection of Cover Illustrations
The final cover illustrations for both books will be those selected by the largest number of essay authors. As essay authors choose the most inspiring accompanying illustration for their essay from the 50 offered, without knowing the choices of other essay authors, the creator of the NoMoreSilence project acknowledges the possibility that all essay authors may choose the same illustration for their essay. Remaining illustrations will be included at the end of the book. Essay authors' success will be appropriately based on their choice of a specific accompanying illustration and their mandatory 100-character explanation for that choice. The authors of the essays featured in the second book will choose from 50 illustrations that, unlike those in the first book, depict the scene of David and Goliath after the battle has ended.
Collection of Artistic and Intellectual Works
In this context, both books can be seen as collections of individual works by painters and essayists, but also as curated sets of their combined expressions—pairs of essays and selected illustrations. Given the richness of the inspirational aspects of the specific case and the diversity of historical, moral, and cultural perspectives of each author, repetition in essays is not expected, nor is similarity among the illustrations, which will be created based only on basic propositional guidelines. It is certain that the essay authors and painter-illustrators, who may come from as many as 50 different countries, will bring completely different approaches to writing essays and creating illustrations.
In this sense, each essay-illustration pair can be regarded as a distinct artistic expression. Ultimately, the book itself, composed of these artistic composites—along with the essay competition text, the illustration commission, and the overall concept of the NoMoreSilence project—will be considered by admirers of complex artistic expression as an independent and complete artistic work.
Awards for Essay and Illustration Authors
Authors of the best essays will receive generous financial awards, as described in the rules for the competition “Now: The Truth in David's Sling! (1)“ . Authors of the best essays in the second major competition, “Now: The Truth in David's Sling! (2)“, will receive a prize of $1,000,000. Authors of illustrations for both books will receive initial compensation for participation in the competition, awards for the most chosen illustrations, and a percentage from the auction sales of the original illustrations.
The Power of Words and Images
The monetary awards within the NoMoreSilence project are not merely a recognition of excellence but an investment in the power of intellectual and artistic thought. The selected essays and illustrations from the competition are not just artistic expressions; they are concrete intellectual tools in the fight for justice. The initiator of the project believes that this awareness of the true purpose and strength of words and images will inspire the creation of works that leave a lasting social and ethical impact.
A Unique Endeavor
In a figurative sense, the initiator of the NoMoreSilence project, together with artists and essay authors, is leading an endeavor to encourage people to fight for their rights using all permissible means. This campaign is based solely on moral and customary principles, relying on words, intellect, art, and humanistic solidarity as its main means. In addition to material compensation, participants will gain honor, pride, and a lasting memory of their involvement in this unique endeavor, leaving behind a legacy through their essays and illustrations.
Other project participants who purchase the book will become owners of a unique artistic and collectible memorabilia—both as a testament to their support and a reminder of their contribution to breaking the old social paradigm that nothing can be done against the immorality of the powerful.
The NOMORESILENCE Books webpage will be fully available only after the “Now: The Truth in David's Sling! (1)“ essay writing competition has been completed.