Joey Skaggs is a fine artist and social activist . Although he has painted and sculpted throughout his life , starting with his iconoclastic and controversial performance-art protests in the Sixties , his public work took on a new direction . Skaggs realized he could use art to challenge the system . Appalled at the cultural hypocrisy he saw around him , especially how it was blindly supported in the media , he began to satirize social issues with public performances and elaborately contrived media hoaxes .