Bused tourists travel through with cameras, bound to snap shots of old war memorials along the Marne, on our plateau of tears. Some may notice a mound near the banks where polaroid splashes of wildflowers grow. A place where those who live in these parts know resides the remains of trophæum. Reeking, foreign uniforms happened…
Tag: World War I
dVerse — quadrille — Forever Young
Plaster casts taken from soldiers’ mutilated faces (top row), new sculpted faces (bottom row), and final masks (on the table) sit in the studio of Anna Coleman Ladd in 1918. American Red Cross/Anna Coleman Ladd papers/Archives of American Art/Smithsonian Institution Boys of sixteen , knuckles cracking to join Horse clippered skinheads Excited clumps, dazed…
Tao Talk 