The sound of silence
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I was in a very Dark place when I did this one, too much violence, too much killing. too many memories.....ugh!...nothing groovy about their day.
Pity the fellow who survived long enough to get an arm out the viewport.
It's just got to come out of me somehow........this is my vent
Jim.
it makes me think of some interviews of mechanized troops and their NCO's after gulf war 1. for the first the first time our young people had battle experience with the new M1 abrams and bradleys with all its standoff tech and special sights. after all the simulator training , they had the accuracy down to a tee... but when the sun came up and they saw what was the end result of their machines capabilities , charred tank crews hanging out of turrets , like you depict, it really effed them up bad in the head. these machines we model are fascinating in their own right , but i never lose sight of what they were created for. you really strike a balance with the dioramas you do.
Well, as you say, while the vehicles, planes, and ships of war are in themselves worthy of clinical and technical praise
and depictions, I have always been an outlier most of my life, in many things including my modeling style.
Sometimes a kind of reckoning sprouts up where least expected to hopefully show the destruction, devastation
and human suffering not so much inflicted by the 'equipment' but by those that wield them.
Man's inhumanity to man is my so to speak message and maybe this might not be the proper forum
to air such depictions, but as adults in full knowledge of the capabilities and usages of such systems
we should at the very least get to see in model form the results hither to borne.
Again my humblest thanks for your kind attention to my work,
and All The Best to you and yours always,
Jim.
