{"id":78,"date":"2020-01-11T14:48:54","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T14:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/k100\/?page_id=78"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:49:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T09:49:53","slug":"social-issues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/social-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n<\/style>\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Social Issues<\/h2>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-small-font-size has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;color:#29780a\">This is my Suffering  World page. I could make sculptures for this page for ever!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:29% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"510\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BLM12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-769 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BLM12.png 510w, https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/BLM12-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px\"><strong>Black Lives Matter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">This comes out of the newspaper coverage of the black man who rescued the white man with a fireman\u2019s hitch, out of trouble during a Black Lives Matter rally. &nbsp; It was in the wake of George Floyd\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"210\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/socialatr.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px\"><strong>After the Raid<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">There is nothing  left for this man.&nbsp; Absolutely everything has gone. He  probably won&#8217;t survive himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tDo we really \n\t\t\t\t\t\thave to do this to each other?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"188\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/socialhfa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-186 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px\"><strong>Home From the Front<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">I was just doodling with clay thinking of father and son, and maybe make them into a candle holder, greeting one another, and suddenly it was a traumatized Soldier Dad home on leave, greeting his son, so relieved just to hold his soft warm innocent little hand to his face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">It is not a good sculpture, but it is just the birth of an idea.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"169\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/socialsitf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px\"><strong>Shot in the Face<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">There he was, just going about his life, and wham.  He is just beginning to die, but he is not sure why.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"176\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/socialswv.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px\"><strong>Sarajevo: A Woman&#8217;s View<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">In this complex and dirty war, we were shown the flattened countryside on the News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">I was working on a series of dancers, and thought of the homeless and bereaved women, powerless to stop the lunacy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"172\" src=\"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/socialsbm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-188 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px\"><strong>Suicide Bomber&#8217;s Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">Imagine having a son or daughter who is so angered by what they see as &#8220;the rape of their world by the predatory West&#8221;, that they feel the revenge is worth dying for. Imagine being the mother of such a one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">You feel the agony of the loss of your child, but also a strange mixture of jubilation, of pride, of profound fury, that your world has to be like this. Such a mixture of emotions, unknown to most of us. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:20% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"163\" src=\"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/socialwwp2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px\"><strong>We Want Peace!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">On February 9th 1996 the 18 month long ceasefire in Northern Ireland was shattered by a bomb at South Quay in Docklands, London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">Three days later &#8220;Women Together&#8221; staged a silent vigil outside the Town Hall in Belfast. In total silence each person held high a paper dove and some had banners declaring: &#8220;We want Peace&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">It is the news coverage of that vigil which inspired this sculpture.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"181\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/social911.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-184 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px\"><strong>Nine Eleven<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">When buildings are destroyed they leave behind them the most incredible sculptures, like Dresden and Coventry, even the ancient abbeys.   There in the ruins is the death and suffering, the pain and fear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">The Twin towers were left in the most amazing leaning shapes, which I recreated with wire mesh, covered in paper clay and fired in a kiln.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\"> Why do we want to destroy each other? <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:15% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"165\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/carolacworth.com\/V100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/socialnfa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:20px\"><strong>News From Afghanistan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">There goes another soldier, and for what?   Mother and child cope with the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-font\" style=\"font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px\">It has been said that the solution for Afghanistan is not a military one, so what are we doing there?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:107px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my Suffering World page. I could make sculptures for this page for ever! 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