Iraq War Vets paintings, 2006

The idea for these paintings came from reading news stories that described the injuries—including a high occurrence of head injuries—suffered by US military personnel serving in Iraq. Lives being destroyed for an ill-planned, ill-equipped war, conceived as an improbable fantasy and built on lies, is a sad and bitter reality. This series of paintings is a way to honor those who have suffered injury or death—both American soldiers and Iraqi citizens—in the fiasco that is the Iraq War.

A few of the paintings contain place names and dates. While these are arbitrary, they are intended to suggest a specific event.

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