Peace for Sale

So this piece has been a long time coming. I told myself I would finish it before I went back to school on the 12th. Mission accomplished. I took my inspiration for this piece from the helplessness I feel in my heart when it comes to the War. I do not have any political power. You can say my right to vote is "power" but at the end of the day all it is, is a way to keep me content. I still feel helpless, powerless, and un-informed, so I reach for a statement, I reach for a T-shirt with a Peace sign on it, a painting that reads..."Make Art not War," or a piece of jewelery that symbolizes my passion for Peace & Love...whatever the statement may be, its all I have got. I am only one patriotic and concerned civilian looking for a way to settle my uncertainty by capitalizing on something so tragic in U.S. history by purchasing my "statements." I call it "selling peace" We cant have real Peace, so we settle for the material kind. With that thought, this painting was born.

It reads: PEACE FOR SALE, and "tagged" over the top of that in Arabic it reads: "The cost is your life"

Take what you want from it, and then take a little more...

Peace & Love
Elisabeth