reflections on war
“I find myself at the interzone of painting and sculpture; my work is a heavy metal cocktail of male fantasies, obsessive and confrontational. It is a chemical haze of alternative sound and vision, religion and politics, conflict and war, tragedy and loss. A crucible of liquid observations and memories, which stimulate my pending offering to the uncharted future of art.”
— Paul Wager
Great afflictions await us, more serious matters remain
vehimur in altum
we are carried out into the depths
“These are the people who have been through the great trial; they have washed their robes white again in the blood of the lamb.”
— Revelation 7:14
“I looked and beheld a pale horse and his name that sat on him was death.”
— Revelation 6:8
inter spem et metum
between hope and fear
courage sans peur
courage without fear
Resistance to fear
die Maßnahne
the measures taken
ethik des widerstands
ethics of resistance
“I can be a subversive element.”
— Ulrike Meinhof
guerra cominciata, inferno scatenato
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world”
— Ephesians 6:12
“Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.”
— Edward Gibbon
“Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
— John 8:32
“Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”
— Edward Gibbon
“security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction”
— Thomas Fuller
“Hell is a circle about the unbeleiving.”
— The Koran
reflections on war
“Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction.”
— Matthew 7:13
“Der Krieg ist nichts anders als die Fortsetzung der Politik min anderen Mitteln.”
— Karl Von Clausewitz
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.”
— 1 Corinthians 13:11-12
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognises genius.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
