War

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Price: Not for Sale Year: 1995 Media: Acrylics with mixed media and found objects on a wood base. Dimensions: 23.75" x 25.5" x 9" Description: Calligraphic sculpture. Mixed media, including ragmat acid-free foamcore, fibre, acrylics, latex paint sand, barbed wire and gouache on rag paper. The letterforms are hand-cut Roman capitals and Gothic blackletter. The base is wood with an integral wood frame. The words were spoken by a contemporary of mine during the Vietnam War. Text: "WAR IS AN UGLY THING, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse; A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight - nothing he cares about more than his own personal safety - is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)