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WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST
5ft x 9ft. Acrylic and oil on canvas. 2003. In modern western civilian society, the custom is to open doors or give up one’s seat for women and children. War used to be the domain of men, face to face on the battlefield. Women and children are now amongst the first victims, often major pawns on the front lines of conflict. Rape is used as a tool for the systematic demoralization and dishonouring of women within ethnic communities and as a means of pure violence. Children are forcibly enlisted into rebel armies in their thousands. This painting endeavours to create a kind of ‘pun’ on the expression ‘women and children first’.
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