Un-Battle

War simply means violence among people. It is such an ego driven means to an end. The end however, remains. Simply killing and burying the dead leaves the bad energy above the ground. While the wicked survive, they assume it is for the better. It is their own wickedness that they are left living with. Unless they learn to unlearn the evil, then they can reverse the meaning of the word to spell "live".

The article's headline read "Rebels Battle - City Under Siege". By simply adding the suffix "Un" and the word "Not", the news was as one would wish for it to be imagined under "Peace".

I personally believe that there is good in all humans. If our common goal is enlightenment, then co-existance is indeed possible.

The final piece was created over a cartoon of a firework I'd painted. It was unintentional but ended up adding to the symbolism. Stencil, black paper, color pencil, marker, sandpaper, acrylic, spraypaint etc. was used for this non-discriminative composition. It represents peace disguised as violence in a blanket of dancing colors.

 ( Art from the L4 series )