For The Children, For The Women, For The Elders

by
Stephanie Anne Johnson

Materials: African mask (Dan people), beads, fiber, salvaged wood,
fluorescent and incandescent light

Date: 2005
Size: "24x12x21"

After many, many centuries of war, it is clear that increasingly the major victims are the children, the women and the elders. Every day I work towards a world in which the (perceived) weak, the vulnerable and the innocent can live in peace while the (appointed) strong and powerful use their resources for the well being of us all.