Fallout Leah Knecht
Alkyd on Cradled Wood Panel, Acrylic on Canvas, Colored Plexiglass, Japanese Folk-Art Doll, Transparencies, Sand, Dominoes 24" x 24" x 1.75" $4000 Part of my “Whitewash” series, “Fallout” has faint paintings of a Japanese landscape print and a Southwest scene inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe. The top hole is filled with an actual Japanese folkart doll I bought in Japan and overlaid with a transparency of an atomic bomb mushroom cloud. The bottom hole has layers of the United States Capitol building and the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. White paint drips over the top, along with sand embedded in acrylic medium. Overlaid are parts of a painting I did years ago, a Cadillac, and a “missile-riding” pinup girl, which was a popular genre during WWII. The division sign is implied. This is a very painful subject for me, as I had relatives in Hiroshima, Japan. It is something that still causes anger and sadness, and could have only happened because Japanese were seen as less than human.
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