UTW 24

Child with quilt in the Warsaw ghetto

Art: 1994
Media: Ink, watercolor, colored pencil, collaged on fabric, stitching with thread
Framed, 23 inches H x 29 W 
The framing was a gift of The Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle

This mixed media drawing portrays a nameless and anonymous child victim, a boy, drawn from a Warsaw Ghetto photo. The quilt's 'leaping ponies or doggies' are meant to evoke an unfulfilled dream, or, however you, the viewer, might wish to interpret them...

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Drawn from a photo in the chapter titled “Children in The Warsaw Ghetto - 45th Anniversary of the Uprising.”

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For some years I had thought this was my first ever drawing with collage, in this case, collaged on fabric. I noticed, in notes I wrote in June 2018, that Under the Wings 21, Lebensraum – Lody, the Eskimo ice cream drawing, also drawn in 1994, has a collaged-on piece of an old book cover on which I had stitched twine or heavy thread. So as UTW 21 preceded UTW 24, that earlier work done the same year was likely my first ever artwork with collage. Some I got through years of college art studies, Dec. 1972 through August 1980, followed by years of post-college art making, without ever having done any collage.