Poverty, inequality, healthcare, racism, sexism, a general hatred for those who pray or love or define themselves differently from traditional Western norms, will probably be with us for the next foreseeable future. Perhaps in FAR worse forms than before.  What will affect the world beyond American borders are war and climate change denial. I am not denying the fact that present and past administrations have been warmongering, more so perhaps than we are aware of. I also thought the least desirable aspect of HRC was her hawkish inclinations. Yet the thought that an unpredictable narcissist with fascistic leanings and a coterie of sycophants has the finger on the nuclear button gives me nightmares.

For paintings I chose one of my favorite and one of my least favorite painters. The former captures the horror of war like no one else. Otto Dix painted The War between 1929 and 1932.

More on it here:http://www.skd.museum/en/special-exhibitions/archive/otto-dix-der-krieg-war/

The latter artist, Anselm Kiefer, is discussed in the link below (take it with a grain of salt) but painted something for a Paul Celan poem that I really like.

Anselm Kiefer’s Heady and Heavy-Handed Behemoths

As photographic counterpoints I chose portraits I took of our young women and men who will be the potential canon fodder should war be part of the Trump presidency. I, of course, have no access to those who will be killed by drones, bombs, mines or nuclear missiles in the rest of the world. And so, so young.