War
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I have already posted this as part of the Earth Crosses series. It does not have an entry of its own, and I wanted one to have a name for this image, I just printed it out and I want to name it.
Title: War
That is accurate but it adds nothing.
The lines from Maori Battalion Veteran by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell say it better…
… I have nightmares.
Night and day I see pictures
of my closest mates falling
beside me in so many battles
I have forgotten when and where
it was they died
Title: “I have forgotten when and where
it was they died”
~
I think of my fathers story, he was in the five day war over Holland with Germany in August 1940. He saw his mates die.
I also think of the war reports I see every day of my life … death tolls, I forget how many.
Yet the image takes me to the here and now feeling of life & death within me, where war is a metaphor for the intensity of life.
These darkest moments of history produce stories that mirror intensity of the bodies struggle to survive, the daily cellular battle for air & water and the heart’s craving for love…
Title: The heart’s craving for love
the hearts battle for love
???
Later: Sunday, 6 July, 2008
This image is now featured in the Gallery