8.5” x 11”, collage of newsprint, ink, crayon, graphite, 2006-07.
Key:
The title is from the first verse of The Song of the Three Holy Children, a book of the Apocrypha (from the Authorized Version of 1611).
Drawing of child with gun from an advertisement for the Mattel toy company’s M-16 Marauder toy (“If you think this gun looks great, wait’ll you hear it!”), from the back cover of Metal Men #27, 1967.
A potion of the title and a portion of the text of the gun discharge are from the lyric of “Imagine,” by John Winston Lennon Ono, culled from the annual advertisement in the New York Times taken by Yoko Ono Lennon.
A portion of the text of the gun discharge is from a quote from the novelist A.B. Yehoshua, in A Haifa Life, New York Times Magazine 13 (July 30, 2006) (“[Q:] Are you constantly heading into bomb shelters? [A:] Every modern house in Israel has its own safe room. The other day, a patient was insistent to come see my wife, a psychoanalyst. In the middle of the session, the sirens went off. The three of us rushed into the safe room. This was a really special session in which the psychoanalyst’s husband is sitting with the patient. This is not done in New York”)
The shadow of the boy is from Fred Kaplan, The Army, Faced With Its Limits, N.Y. Times D4 (Jan. 1 2006).
Prettyfakes is against war.
Living with War.
Prof. Fury on Captain America and the true nature of America.
Exodus 20:13.
The Heavenly States contemplate the loss of life during war.
badazz.
You led me to believe that this would be lame, when in fact it is pretty damn amazing.
I really love this.
O Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, bless ye the Lord: praise and exalt him above all for ever: far he hath delivered us from hell, and saved us from the hand of death, and delivered us out of the midst of the furnace and burning flame: even out of the midst of the fire hath he delivered us.
O give thanks unto the Lord, because he is gracious: for his mercy endureth for ever.
O yeah!
Letters-and-Surveys is against war too. The Knoxville anti-war/peace rally is on 3/17 West Hills Park. Be there or be square! A representative of Women in Black will be speaking! L&S is also for WIB.
This is beautiful, gorjus.