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The-Egg In reply to cashlost2 [2019-03-10 23:57:03 +0000 UTC]

it's a pretty creepy sculpture, with some googling I found this: "This figurative sculpture, The Victims originated as a part of an unexecuted project for a war memorial for Washington, DC. The artist, Andrew O’Connor, conceived the idea of a huge war memorial in about 1918 and worked on the project until at least 1931. However, no such monument was ever commissioned from him. The memorial consisted of three sections. The first of which was a group of three figures; a dead soldier strapped to a bier, mourned by his wife and his mother. The figure of the dead soldier is The Victim, inscribed with the words; ‘Naked you came into the world’, the kneeling figure of The Wife with her hands clasped in prayer is variously called The Virgin or Mother of Sorrows. She is inscribed; ‘As cranes chanting their dolorous notes traverse the sky’ which is taken from a translation of Dante’s Inferno. The standing female figure of The Mother of the Hero leans mournfully on her left elbow."

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TRunna In reply to The-Egg [2019-03-11 03:36:40 +0000 UTC]

that is fascinating....and gives the image more impact

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cashlost2 In reply to The-Egg [2019-03-11 00:27:06 +0000 UTC]

Interesting and creepy

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