Armageddon Artifacts
The Megiddo
(Armageddon) Artifacts series was inspired by a trip to the
historical site Megiddo, Israel. The artifacts are now held
in the Oriental Institute of Chicago (from an archeological
dig done by The University of Chicago in the 30s).
My first series of Armageddon
Artifacts are oil paintings of shards of vessels, and then
continue with charcoal drawings of artifacts of tools,
weapons, and fragments of jewelry. The artifacts are
witnesses of the past, wordless witnesses of their time. I
view them as symbolic of our humanness. Though thousands of
years have passed, vessels, tools, weapons, and jewelry
remain with us, as does war. We feel a kinship with the
people who made them.
