Two Choices: Destruction and Wasteful Defense Spending
Item
Title
Two Choices: Destruction and Wasteful Defense Spending
Description
Assemblage sculpture of plastic and metal objects related to war and technology, including toy tanks and a tin ammunition box, placed on a plastic green table. Resting against the table is an oxidized metal sign that reads in white paint "IRAQ / FREEDOM / 2003? / GOD SAVE US / BOMBING AGONY / [indiscernible] FEAR / [bottom line indiscernible]." Resting against the sign are two smaller name plate signs, one grey, reading SONDRA, and one green, reading TERESA. In discussing this sculpture, Minter ruminates on his time in the army during the Vietnam War and the mindlessness of weapons.
In a nearby bundle of vertical wooden poles rests another metal sign, reading in white paint: "2004 ARMY/ IRAQ WAR 2005 / GOD CONFER THE / MOTHER & FATHER OF / THE SON & DAUGHTER / LOST IN THIS IRAQ WAR / TIME 2 1/2 YEARS 200 billion / DEAD 1850 WOUNDED 15000 / GOD FORGIVE US / BRING / THEM / HOME."
In a nearby bundle of vertical wooden poles rests another metal sign, reading in white paint: "2004 ARMY/ IRAQ WAR 2005 / GOD CONFER THE / MOTHER & FATHER OF / THE SON & DAUGHTER / LOST IN THIS IRAQ WAR / TIME 2 1/2 YEARS 200 billion / DEAD 1850 WOUNDED 15000 / GOD FORGIVE US / BRING / THEM / HOME."
Subject
Assemblages (sculpture) See all items with this value
Iraq War See all items with this value
Vietnam War See all items with this value
Creator
Minter, Joe
Language
English
Type
Assemblages (sculpture) See all items with this value
Date
Begun in 2003