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Carafe

Earthenware, h 20cm

This sculpture is a development of the still-life motif although the only surviving recognisable element is the wine bottle.

The image is of a first world war howitzer canon, something I gleaned from TV documentaries as a child.
This abandoned weapon is simultaneously heroic-aggressive and tragic-pathetic (as surely is any deadly weapon).

The first world war was notable for the way it destroyed the youth and hope of a generation. Any war requires that participants on at least one side are convinced that a military victory is possible and desirable and that the risk of personal, community and national disaster which so commonly occurs is worth taking. The fact that wars are always disastrous is repeatedly overlooked in favour of the siren voices of heroism and victory.

 





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