Prelude to War



Rachel Rosenthal, 2002, oil on canvas 4'x4'
Los Angeles: 34n03, 118w15
'Who is the attacker, who is the victim? Both are armored, one's weapon could be a gas pump nozzle, the other, with an rxay for a body is a mutant machine/human or the other way round. War is an aberration. Erupting volcanoes protest. But the amibiguous aggressor/victim dance seems inevitable..