About the Book
This book is documentation of a series of India ink drawings entitled, “Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth”. The drawings are about grief, regret, fear, and anxiety. The war looms, the economy collapses, there are shootings in schools and places of worship and stabbings in homes. Friends get cancer, the oceans are polluted. Everyday I watch my 2-year-old daughter get braver – still, everyday she gets hurt. Her sadness is my sadness.
We are at war with ourselves and with each other. We rationalize our bad behaviors and justify our complacency about environmental decline, poverty, and abuse. We worry about our anxieties and we fear potential future sufferings.
This work addresses my conflicted sense of morality. The imagery is inspired by expansive sources including historical war photography, children's wartime drawings, medieval plague art, Indian miniatures, Chinese scroll painting, current events, the Bible, and works by artists such as Francesco Ubertini, Pieter Bruegel, Fra Angelico, Martin Schongauer, Caspar David Friedrich, Luca Signorelli, and Francisco Goya.
We are at war with ourselves and with each other. We rationalize our bad behaviors and justify our complacency about environmental decline, poverty, and abuse. We worry about our anxieties and we fear potential future sufferings.
This work addresses my conflicted sense of morality. The imagery is inspired by expansive sources including historical war photography, children's wartime drawings, medieval plague art, Indian miniatures, Chinese scroll painting, current events, the Bible, and works by artists such as Francesco Ubertini, Pieter Bruegel, Fra Angelico, Martin Schongauer, Caspar David Friedrich, Luca Signorelli, and Francisco Goya.
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