Monday, March 17, 2014

"Bloody Sunday: 1972"



    This work is a memorial to those massacred in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. I remember finding photos of all the victims, (most no more than 17 yrs. old).  I tried to focus on each face; carefully arranging the lines and shadows that somehow would combine to represent a unique individual.   Each  life cut short by politics;  by religious ideology;  by misplaced imperialism, etc.  I thought of my son at 17 yrs. old and thought what a bloody waste...

 Materials: tea bags, charcoal, ink, acrylics and type face.








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