WPCNR PHOTOGRAPH OF THE DAY. By the WPCNR Roving Photographer. September 7:
Aspara Warrior
By Ouk Chim Vichet
Your Roving Photographer was reminded again of why artists create, when he turned the corner in a gallery at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and was confronted by this amazing sculpture. It represented the power of personal expression and imagination to say more than words can say. For the rest of the story...
The arms and torso are constructed of barrels of AK-47 rifles, triggers, handles. What is the warrior saying? What is the warrior's message? The shock of seeing Vichet's warrior for the first time is profoundly disturbing. It is haunting, evoking sorrow, repulsion, thought. What does the warrior say to you? What does the warrior inspire in you?
The sculpture points out the ability of one person's imagination to state and evoke and to move us to another dimension of sensitivity.
