J'accuse

Lately, for some reason, I've been thinking about a friend of mine from my NYC days, whom I long ago lost contact with, Bruno Eckhart. He grew up in Germany during WW II and the aftermath. His paintings strongly reflected his background and he was, very strongly, anti war.

Today I happened to visit krikl's photostream and his "still life of mass murder" set.

My Japanes friend, Kumiko, is strongly pacifist, as I'd expect from someone who grew up an hour or so away from Hiroshima.

None the less there are obviously times when men of good will must stand together and stop, by any means possible the actions of madmen and fanatics.

Subsequently thanks to my damn friend Bruno and damn stefan kriki, and damn Kumiko, I had to toss watercolors like oils and emote this piece to express a little that which I can't really put in to words!


Watercolor on 140 pound 11" X 15" cold press, photographed while paint was still wet.