This is Prophet 8, and once again a soldier stands beneath a quotation from a war movie. This quote is from the 1930’s classic, All Quiet on the Western Front. Behind the marine looms Alexander the Great’s birth chart, so this piece again questions the notion of destiny. By age 30, Alexander had forged the largest empire of his day through brilliant military campaigns. To this day, he is legendary and heralded as a great tactical genius and heroic figure.
Is it that big victories erase the half our memories so that only the glamour remains? What a different view from that of All Quiet on the Western Front– a movie about the drudgery and disillusionment that the horrors of war reap.
Waterbase media, markers on paper.