School Daze II, was made in March of this year and included in the "Art as Prayer - Art For God's Sake" at Christ Episcopal in the middle of March.
What is also displayed with this assemblage art piece, featured during May and June at Gallery 223, Lake Geneva, WI, is a booklet that includes A Prayer Litany, "Death Shall Have No Dominion" excerpts, from the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago's Day of Lament, March 14, 2018.
Also in the booklet are the listings of the hundreds and hundreds of schools where shootings in the USA have occurred the last 50 years. Very sad and terribly tragic, we need to make our children safe again, prayers yes, followed by action plans!
This piece was also in an article in the Lake Geneva Regional News on March 24th. It did not show the whole art piece. The reporter, in the article, says my passion is for politics, but really it's more pointed to the spiritual with events of life, including some political things, added from time to time... from my recent artist's statement: "...Much of my art is spiritual, motivated by events happening in the world, some take a light-hearted, whimsical look at things, but the majority offers a deep, reflective view of God, of life, and our part in it."”
So, this piece opened a lot of discussion online, statements positive and negative... and in the meantime, there have been 3 more school shootings and nothing has been done to stop the senseless violence! What will it take??
