Description of Series Three: "Radical woman"

This is a full scale piece depicting a "Woman in War" , forced to accept the brutality of war and yet determined to find the Peace. The objects she wears are authentic and are of the period during the Vietnam War. The bombs are actual cluster bombs used to maim and not so much to kill the enemy. They are placed strategically on the women where she is most vulnerable and capable of feeding her offspring. She also wears the symbols of Peace in protest of the senseless destruction. The flower in the rifle is reminder of the famous photograph from the Kent State Protests, when the student put the flower in the barrel of the guardsman rifle.