Yoshiro Sanbonmatsu
Artwork of Empathy & Resistance
MUST HAVE BEEN A MIRAGE.
1991. Oil (30" X 42”).
Cartoon strip:
Baker: “Gee, George, you were great!”
George: “It’s history—help someone to power covertly and you go up with them.”
Baker: “You mean like Noriega and Hussein?”
George: “Yeah and when you get there, you expect them to cooperate.”
Baker: “And if they don’t?”
George: “Then you kick ass and show who’s #1.”
Baker: “Aren’t you afraid they’ll reveal the CIA stuff?”
George: “Naw, no one listens to losers!”
ARTIST COMMENT:
This painting was first titled ONLY 326. Words and numbers shuffled into the pages of history by the first George Bush. Why weren’t the dead allowed to speak?