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It's Only a Game |
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Send to Friends |
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Commentary: Baseball being such an uniquely American activity, I often use baseball imagery to symbolize aspects of American culture. In too many instances young men exchange their baseball uniforms for those of a soldier and trade in their bats, balls, and gloves for rifles and hand grenades. When that happens it stops being only a “game”. This piece was created in memory of my Uncle Tom, aged 21, co-pilot, shown second from right in front of his WWII bomber. His plane went down over Iceland, 1944.
Medium: Old handmade bat & hand sewn ball, hand carved wood toy plane hanging from handmade wood toolbox, photo of young men gathered to play baseball on a small town team 1941, second photo of flight crew standing in front of WWII bomber 1944.
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