Let's Hold Hands Backwards

I'm on my third (fourth?) try making a lino print of LET'S HOLD HANDS--a line I'm always quoting from Toy Story 3.
The toys don't say that, actually--they do it:
they take each other's hands as they are being conveyed into the Fiery Furnace of a garbage plant, like Shadrack, Meshach, and Abednego.

Hey, Shadrack, Meshach, and Abednego say NO KINGS!
Hahahahaaaa, I would use that on a poster if the public knew who they were. 
(As you may know, they are the three young Hebrew men who defy their employer, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, by refusing to worship his GOLD image of himself--in Hebrew scripture, Book of Daniel, chapter 3.
The king has the three thrown in a fiery furnace, but a divine figure walks with them, and they emerge unharmed.)

Anyhoo, the first carving didn't work at all; 
then I carved the "a" backwards. Sometimes that's okay, but it didn't read, so I fixed it. 
Then the O was too heavy, so I opened it up...

This ^ is my orange kitchen table--taken from the reverse angle of the photograph of the pine boughs w/ girlettes the other day.

It's a little café table, not really sufficient, but I use it for everything. Isn't it funny how sometimes we'll choose the most awkward place to work? Like a cat will curl itself into a tiny container and fall asleep.

The open O looked like a donut, so I'm testing a heart (glued, here) in its center:

I don't know. It's fine, but I don't love it.
It's what happens whenever I try to Make a Statement--it feels like ... a statement.

Actually, this is a statement. 
ICE is in town (the federal agents, not the weather, though that too--today's temps are in the single digits), and I'm seeing lots of informative or supportive (of immigrants) or angry posters and fliers around. 
I thought I'd make something to put up along with them.

I was just talking about the different between pure play and playful resistance tactics.
Pure play is pointless.
Resistance has a point, and this is that. 

Does anyone purely love a message?
Well, of course we do.
I just don't love this print!
But I don't think I will love it more if I make another iteration.

But maybe . . . taking off the heart?

Will futz some more.
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Sometimes Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are referred to as children. The girlettes would love to play them. 
"Put us in the fiery furnace with a divine being!"

Who would be the divine being?

"We shall choose among us."

They are popular in art history. My favorite

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace, in the Priscilla Catacombs, Rome, Italy. via