SKETCHES OF THINGS SEEN

Drawings

This is a series of fourteen sketches of objects made during the civil war that various former guerrillas either showed to me or which they described in detail and I later encountered photographs of in  archives.

 

Sketches of Things Seen,   2017.

Acrylic paint on paper. 

28 x 35.5 cm

Bomb whose name I don't remember, cuya forma y función no entiendo. // Bomba cuyo nombre no recuerdo, whose form and function I don't understand.
Radio de comunicación por alambre pua. // Communication radio by barbed wire.
Misil envuelto en papel craft, cinta masking y listón de rafia. // Missile wrapped in craft paper, masking tape, and raffia twine.
Bomb with corn cob fuse molder // Bomba con una porta mechas de mazorca de maiz.
Masking tape and coffee grounds contact bombs. // Bombas de contacto de cinta masking y café molido.
Bengala casera de tubo de PVC. // PVC pipe homemade flare.