A soldiers poem

A soldiers poem,
In July of 2005, near the end of his time in Afghanistan, Orrin Gorman McClellan wrote a bitter ode to military recruiters:

"take your pleasantries
your generalizations, good intentions,
sweet words, and half truths,
put them in a box.
drape a flag over it.
and bury it with the rest of the dead."

Orrin Gorman McClellan committed suicide this last May. The number of suicides are growing among our returning veterans, 37 out of 100 at last accounting- a huge %. We must not forget our veterans and the wars we are STILL fighting. I am sorry, his sorrow and hurt is evident from his poem.

More 50-50 paper bag collage images

woman - is a combo of bag image and cut out. I have been obsessed with silhouettes/profiles so I did a few of them.
Paperglyph I, is found paper cutting cast offs put together. I almost called this floorglyph because I had found the central image on the floor under my work table.
Dreaming, I have fun cutting out stars and found that great hat on a bag. I also had allot of that metallic green and as I said was obsessed with silhouettes/profiles- I think that I have gotten it out of my system... or not (I do have allot of solid color bags!)
Bear Essentials, I really wanted to play with text and just could not leave those colored circles alone... combo cutting and found image