LETTERS FROM HOME is a series of monotypes, lithography, and paintings inspired by and incorporating letters from my mother and other family members to my father when he served in the South Pacific (New Guinea) during War II. This body of work provides rich and evocative textures of the time, the war, separation, family and love. From the beach in Atlantic City to the landings in New Guinea, danger and worry, attempts at normalcy, stories to uplift and words of love evident and hidden in these letters. The terrible reality of war is the undercurrent that runs in generations and is presented in these prints, paintings and poems.
My desire was to a create a universal story, through letters and imagery, of all who, generation after generation send their children, brothers, fathers and sisters to war and stand on either side of a bridge between those who go and those who stay at home. Those who fight and those who love them. This body of work is not meant, in any way, to glorify war or evoke a nostalgia for this WWII era. That would be the furthest thing from my parents’ mind. For poetry related to this series, see POETRY March 1943
