This one is especially for Maureen Jordan Richardson. As I said earlier this is a serigraph that I created at Atlanta College of Art in 1970 during what I call my social commentary period. I was reading the East Village Other, LA Free Press, & the Bird quite frequently still so at lot of influence there also Life & Look magazine. Obviously a comment about nuclear destruction which we had burned in our brains from the fifties foward during the Deep Cold war with Russia. I was deeply paranoid at the time & had nightmares about it with mushroom clouds in the distance. I showed this piece with a few others in the Piedmont Park Arts Festival that year. Interestingly enough some of the people from The Bird liked it enough to leave me a note asking if I would come by & talk about doing editorial art for the Bird. My first wife at the time was working in the Corporate world of Georgia Power & did not think that would be good for the environment in which she worked if they got wind of it. So I decided not to go by. The figure was very diffficult to photograph since I had used a very reflective aluminum paint.
Posted on: Sat, 31 May 2014 23:36:09 +0000
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