Collage-War! Why? Series, Fall 2005-Winter 2006
My "War! Why?" series was inspired by the song, "War!" by Barret Strong, Norman Whitfield/Ewan Star, and also by recent demostrations in the U.S. against the war in Iraq. I came from Viet Nam, a country that suffered and was desvasted by so many wars. I feel that I should voice, and show my feelings about war in general, however trivial they are, through my art work.
For each black & white war picture, I collected several photographs from various books at the Berkeley Library, made copy and collaged them into one. Each word that I picked and put together represents the horrific of wars. I then scanned and printed it out. For the colored pictures, I collected them from National Geographic Magazines, post cards, and books at the library, then made colored copies. These are not for sale.
HATE - Palestine-Israel War.
CHAOS - Iraq-United States War.
GENOCIDE - Cambodia-Civil War.
BOMBS - Japan-United States War.
KILL - Viet Nam-United States War.
MURDER - China-Japan War.
Made in Viet Nam
Made in Viet Nam #2
"Made in Viet Nam" are the only two War collages that I did in 1994. I copied photographs from books for the background. I took pictures of my son's hands holding a paper folded gun, a branch rubber band sling shot, and a finger-sign-gun. (Shooting and fighting were games that my brothers, sisters, and neighborhood friends liked to play when we were little growing up in Viet Nam.) After that I cut them out, glue them on the background, and then colored photocopied the whole picture. The title "Made in Viet Nam" implies that the Vietnamese are nationalistic people to the core, and that is why we are still speaking Vietnamese today.
To me, the Earth is big and rich enough for all of us, so why fight and kill one another in the names of ideology, race, religion, power, greed, hatred, and jealousy?
May Love and Peace be with us, and long live the goodness of humankind.
This series is dedicated to Harvey Lyau, a friend, who is very supportive of my work.
Trinh Tuyet Nga
COMMENT:
Harvey Lyau
For each black & white war picture, I collected several photographs from various books at the Berkeley Library, made copy and collaged them into one. Each word that I picked and put together represents the horrific of wars. I then scanned and printed it out. For the colored pictures, I collected them from National Geographic Magazines, post cards, and books at the library, then made colored copies. These are not for sale.
HATE - Palestine-Israel War.
CHAOS - Iraq-United States War.
GENOCIDE - Cambodia-Civil War.
BOMBS - Japan-United States War.
KILL - Viet Nam-United States War.
MURDER - China-Japan War.
Made in Viet Nam
Made in Viet Nam #2
"Made in Viet Nam" are the only two War collages that I did in 1994. I copied photographs from books for the background. I took pictures of my son's hands holding a paper folded gun, a branch rubber band sling shot, and a finger-sign-gun. (Shooting and fighting were games that my brothers, sisters, and neighborhood friends liked to play when we were little growing up in Viet Nam.) After that I cut them out, glue them on the background, and then colored photocopied the whole picture. The title "Made in Viet Nam" implies that the Vietnamese are nationalistic people to the core, and that is why we are still speaking Vietnamese today.
To me, the Earth is big and rich enough for all of us, so why fight and kill one another in the names of ideology, race, religion, power, greed, hatred, and jealousy?
May Love and Peace be with us, and long live the goodness of humankind.
This series is dedicated to Harvey Lyau, a friend, who is very supportive of my work.
Trinh Tuyet Nga
COMMENT:
Regarding your "War!Why?" series: of the 6 new works I felt that "genocide" describes the ridiculous and unreasonable side of war most poignantly. The smiling soldiers' faces contrasting the bare human skulls leaves me feeling that life is always so close to death. We live a brief moment in this world, our borrowed bodies serve as temporary vessels toward what means? certainly there are better things to living than the destruction of humanity.
Harvey Lyau
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