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by Sally Edelstein
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Purchase a tote bag featuring the mixed media "Shell Shock and Awe Good Luck in Future Endeveavors" by Sally Edelstein. Our tote bags are made from soft, durable, poly-poplin fabric and include a 1" black strap for easy carrying on your shoulder. All seams are double-stitched for added durability. Each tote bag is machine-washable in cold water and is printed on both sides using the same image.
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In 2003 as the hopeful-faced US troops entered Iraq, I began work on this collage. By juxtaposing high school yearbook portraits with iconic images... more
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In 2003 as the hopeful-faced US troops entered Iraq, I began work on this collage. By juxtaposing high school yearbook portraits with iconic images of the horrors of combat from WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq, the collage narrates the full story of the devastation of war.
Appropriating Senior portraits from vintage high school and college yearbooks, it was clear that no matter the decade, the fresh eager faces filled with optimism were interchangeable. Each graduating teen’s future loomed ahead with possibilities. The real possibility that so many of these hopeful faces may have been lost to war seemed especially poignant.
In contrast to the reassuring announcements of dramatic American victories we heard at home were the searing images of death and horror we saw in Life Magazine and later in our own living rooms on TV.
The centerpiece image of the mother and son is an ad from 1939 before the U.S. entered WWII. The full-page advertisement ran in an issue of Woman's...
Sally Edelstein is an award-winning N.Y. collage artist and writer who considers herself a visual archeologist digging deep into American mythology, excavating and examining the social fiction we and society tell ourselves over the past 70 years. An incurable collector of vintage ephemera, she utilizes imagery found in her collection for her hand-cut collages, drawing heavily on popular culture and how it both informs our identities and fragments it. Appropriating popular imagery from mid-century America – a time when the American dream was never more seductive and potent, collage becomes the perfect form to re-vision, reimagine and reevaluate ideas and existing dogma. The large hand-cut collages are composed of hundreds of images...
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