This is a linoleum print done in the Vietnam Era.
In 1970, as now, it had become obvious that the war in all its cruelty and futility would grind on and on. I felt all the idealism that had fueled my participation in the Civil Rights movement turning to fury and despair. So much in our own country needed mending!
I had a vision of people doing well as individuals, “keeping their heads above water,” but the country as a whole going down the drain. In protest, I printed this on my kitchen table by painstakingly rubbing the paper against the inked block with a wooden spoon.
Because our desire to dominate the world has not abated, and because wars are easy to get into and hard to terminate, we find ourselves in the same mess forty years later, except that many individuals are NOT keeping their heads above water!