Defendant’s Words

12 x 12 inches
oil and wax and text on panel
(in a black floater frame)Text embedded in this piece is from a Wall Street Journal artical about the 9/11 trial. Interestingly the title text, Defendant’s Words, was torn in two forming a broken vessel. How appropriate for speech that is broken, dishonest and often raucous.

 

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Language, speech, grammar of the heart: 
Where does it come from? 
What is it seeking? 
. . . 
How did we so swiftly lose our common tongue, 
the silence which in an instant can become true speech . . . 
(Beneath the Waves— Michael O’Brien)

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