• Above: Full Image.

Initially a political statement piece (not publicly) on the sending of soldiers over to war, the retitlement and reflection of the artist looking back on the work after a year or so prompted a change in thinking. 

The artist now invites viewers’ to determine their own interpretations based on the following:

• A female figure holding a male figure.

• The faces and expressions of the figures.

• The blue of the female figure’s dress.

• The white cloth the male figure is “wrapped” in (white flag, innocent babe, purity?).

• The tattered remains of a flag.

• The haziness or smokiness of the piece.

• The wall, post, and positions of the figures.

• The lack of stars on the flags.

• The renaming of the image.