Monday, July 15, 2024

War-and-Peace

War-and-Peace
Dr Abe V Rotor
and  Mateo M Rotor

 
War model against a painting background of peace in 3 views, 
by Mateo M Rotor, 9.  On display at the Living with Nature 
Center, San Vicente, Ilocos Sur.

War - toy game of grown ups;
Toy - war game of children;
in between cold peace,
and cold war reign.

Transient is war-and-peace,
the art, science, myth,
 the meaning of living  
in joy and grief. 

Symbols are but man's hope
for the ideal, in reality 
an elusive dream
devoid of piety.   

* War model is made of steel and wood scraps, the backdrop of acrylic on canvas painted by Mateo in 2022, then 9 years old.  He is grandson of the author. The theme spontaneously developed mainly from the on-going wars in Israel-Gaza, Russia-Ukraine, other trouble spots in the world, notwithstanding. 


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