Dialogue of a Soldier
By b. Robert Moore
$3,500.00
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archival print with hand-touched elements, unique 1/1 | includes dark brown frame ($700 value)
Letters from soldiers don’t usually detail much of the terrible news or trauma. Usually soldiers internalize those emotions; they suppress their trauma like a silencer on a weapon. The lethal element is there but you cant hear it until its too late.
In this work, it is a letter to myself. A letter like a weight of my pain.
Black men are soldiers of a war they didn’t sign up for. They are filled with residual and inherited trauma. Yet often not given the education, examples, leadership or courage to share those emotions and vulnerability to heal. We don’t let our emotions out or seek therapy and the words on the letter just stay … they fade but are forever there. Never shared.
Much of why the letter in the background of this work is washed away.
A memorial of a soldier who didn’t get to share his letter but holds onto its words like the poppy flower in his hand … A forever memorial carried.
– b. Robert Moore
Additional information
| Dimensions | 40 × 30 in |
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