Iraq 10 years on – Lest we Forget; Blair / Parliament’s War Guilt

Re-post of work 550, 10 years on from the start of the Iraq conflict

” Blair, assisted by the lying, forging wretch Alistair Campbell without scruples or conscience, painted bullseyes with the blood of British soldiers and of, as it turned out over a million innocent Iraqi men women and children,  around ” WMD intelligence” darts that he knew full well were way outside the reality dartboard – all to soak his future Savile Row pockets with dirty oil money” – Michael St.Mark

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Work 550. Remembrance Day – Lest we Forget Parliament’s war guilt.
by Michael St.Mark, 11th November 2011

Mixed media digital collage

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Alongside remembering the fallen from the two wars of 1914-18 and 1939-44, the artist asks that we remember the responsibility that Parliament should have in ensuring war is an absolute last resort as opposed to what’s actually transpired during the past 10 years – MPs tamely waving through highly questionable legislation, each in order to protect their own long-term political careers at the cost of hundreds of thousands of innocent deaths in foreign lands.
( RIP Robin Cook MP, one of the few along with Jeremy Corbyn, Tony Benn and some Liberals with principles )

* This London Dada moral protest artwork is dedicated to the 564 British soldiers killed and nearly 10,000 injured to date in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, that were jointly instigated by the GW Bush-appeasing Tony Blair, based on transparently dodgy evidence of WMD / terrorist threat.
The two subsequent phony and illegal wars approved in Parliament by typically spineless MPs from both main parties, 2002/3.

London Dada propose new accountability legislation that decrees any future Prime Minister taking this country to war must personally serve alongside front line troops for a minimum of six weeks after commencement of hostilities

Cenotaph Blair 11.11.12

Cenotaph Blair 11.11.12

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work 648; Watching Art Dry

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Watching Art Dry / Pictures at an Exhibition
c. 2013 Michael St.Mark

( Outdoor paints testing station near the shoreline,  E. Sussex )
As per previous work –  when all the pretty pictures and patterns, dead animals and flashy SFX are done, where might art go next .. retire to the seaside?

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London Dada Work No. 647; When all the SFX are done

 

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When All the Special Effects are Done..
© Michael St.Mark 2013

.. and all the pretty patterns are more or less painted, printed and drawn; it’s time for art to go beyond the retinal, to dig beneath the surface of things, with the Power Tool of Perception / PTP ™  without suffering fear-based punitive exclusion from the mainstream media.

( billboard advertising Hayward Gallery’s ” Light Show” , Shoreditch EC1, 2013 )

Tawdry definition;
” Showy, flashy,  superficial… lacking in depth or real meaning ”

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More cheap shot gigantism – Hayward gallery 3D SFX from late 2012.
Hi Res file; click x2 for full effect
( c. Art Axis / London Dada )

Skilled craftsmanship that entertains in a startling, funfair kind of way – sure.
But thought-provoking, challenging, enlightening? Well….


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