These two studies were made in memory of the two hundred communists machine gunned in the firing range 1st May 1944 as revenge for a partisan attack in Nazi occupied Greece. Last week, it was reported that rare photographs had surfaced and been retained by the state for posterity.
Mass state killing is an intrinsic part of fascism (or authoritarian governments ruling through fear and violence). As in the 1930s. we are now being given choices whether to vote fascists into power, or to resist elected fascists while there are still constitutional mechanisms to do so.
The collage materials were watercolour sketches sliced into thin strips and glued to thin paper, and tissue paper previously used to mop up surplus oil paint and allowed to dry.
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