I have been very busy with my day job, which I often bring home and as a result have had very little time/space to think about other things. Frustrating! Despite this I have completed over 50 small ink drawings for my next project; a colaboration with poet Karin Spitfire, for the annual arist/poet exhibition in Belfast, Maine this October. I have experienced a lot of insight as I've created these drawings. I've also been designing very small chapbooks that contain poetry and condolences for each drawing (on the cover) of a slain woman...well mostly slain westerners. It is near to impossible to find any image of any of the thousands of (for the most part) nameless non westerners who have been slain since we have gone to war 4 years ago.
This drawing depicts an american soldier who, as it turns out in this particular case may have been brutally raped and murdered by a fellow soldier. Learn much more by starting here: welcome-to-pottersville.blogspot.com It seems that most of us can't really deal with the ugly side of war, otherwise I guess, we would not allow it and we would all be more active in trying to prevent it. Nonetheless, reading all of the "stories" about our female soldiers makes me both very sympathetic and very scared towards their reasoning for joining the military. It is a complex phenomenon of our time that women have now entered: combat death. I urge everyone to get involved, learn more and form an opinion.