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Description:
Plaster relief with mottled pink ground, rough edges, added elements, figures and texts. Two armless male figures with skeleton-like faces are painted in black and blue and stand tightly together leaning to the right. They stand upon a ground line with red paint that looks like blood and drips to the lower edge. A cluster of five small skulls with blue plastic eyes are located at upper left with white paint dripped below. A small plastic toy arm and skull are embedded at lower right. Five texts are written in various locations on front: little eyes are seeing at top right; Acts Committed at top right corner; Hopeless Tears along right side; The bleeding Hearts, The sacred Hearts, The blessing souls, The lost souls to the right of the male figures; So Many Dreams Have Died, So Many thing said and never done at lower center.

Tags:
blood; bodies; bones; conflict; corpses; deaths; inscriptions; mourning; poetry; sadness; skulls; text; tragedy; violence

Subjects:
Poetry; bodies (animal components); Death; Grief; Inscriptions

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