War
Adam Helms, image via
Polar Brokers is a series of drawings where I took the bio pics of big
oil executives and morphed images of polar bears into their silhouettes.
Trophy Soldiers is a web project made in 2007 that became a reaction to my own personal desensitization to the imagery from the war in Iraq.
Sherry Markovitz Boots Are On The Ground gouache on vellum, 36 x 47 inches, 2001
Peace
Another creature for your bestiary, courtesy of Jesse Paul Miller’s tumblr blog: http://animis.tumblr.com/post/586861970
A kind of bull with a passing resemblance to a recently retired PotUSA whose legacy of endless war, rendition, torture, and corporate sycophancy lives on under the changeling Obama.
Animals are seen quite often in art these days. I noticed the trend beginning several years ago with a profusion of rabbits in paintings. Now the most popular animal seems to be deer, followed closely by bears. Why is everyone choosing the same imagery?