Artwork description:

This is a netmesh screenprint I produced back when the attack on the Ukraine began. I was shocked like many others and I wanted to record this event as a print. I wanted to bring together various elements to form images with juxtaposed imagery on top of one another, forming images that express how I felt about the whole event happening in a fellow European country.

This image brings together the headless Bertram De Born from Dante's Inferno, who holds his head aloft like a lantern, who previously persuaded a young king to kill his father. Because in turning a son against his father he "sundered those that should be one," (28.139) his body is now severed in two instead of together as one.

Materials used:

Screen-print inks on cartridge paper.

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