PULP | Rice Paper on Canvas | 5ft by 6ft

I just glued the last of over 400 letters printed on rice paper from as many wars in our history as I could find.

“PULP” is a 5 ft by 6 ft collage made of over 400 letters and documents printed on rice paper and adhered to the canvas from soldiers at war, prisoners of war, medics, nurses, spies, POWs, families, and victims of genocides at wartime for as many wars as I could find. Wars include but not limited to: Trojan War (~12th Century BCE), Greco-Persian Wars (492 – 449 BCE), Peloponnesian War (431 – 404 BCE), Punic Wars (264 – 146 BCE), Roman Occupation of Egypt (30 BCE – 641 CE), early british wars  (c. AD 85 – 130), An Lushan Rebellion (755 – 763), The Crusades (1095 – 1291), Mongol Invasions (1206 – 1368), Wars of Scottish Independence (1296 – 1357), Hundred Years' War (1337 – 1453), Conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519 – 1521), Marian Civil War (1568 – 1573), Thirty Years' War (1618 – 1648), English Civil Wars (1642 – 1651), Shivaji’s Invasion of Janjira (1661), Capture of Dandarajpuri (1670), Turkish War / Battle of Vienna (1683), Battle of Karnal (1739), French and Indian War (1754 – 1763), Seven Years' War (1756 – 1763), American Revolutionary War (1775 – 1783), French Revolution (1789 – 1799), Napoleonic Italian Campaign (1796 – 1797), War of 1812 (1812 – 1815),  Austrian Occupation of Italy (1815 – 1866), Greek War of Independence (1821 – 1829), Siamese–Vietnamese War (1833 – 1834), Mexican–American War (1846 – 1848),  American Western Expansion Genocides (1846-1890),  First Italian War of Independence (1848), Taiping Rebellion (1850 – 1864), Crimean War (1853 – 1856), Indian Rebellion / War of Independence (1857 – 1858), American Civil War (1861 – 1865), Battle of Puebla (1862), Paraguayan War / War of the Triple Alliance (1864 – 1870), Battle of Washita River (1868), Anglo-Zulu War (1879), Mahdist War (1881 – 1899), Kapsan (Gapsin) Coup (1884), Cambodian Rebellion (1885 – 1886), Spanish-American War (1898), Second Boer War (1899 – 1902), Philippine–American War (1899 – 1902), World War I (1914 – 1918), Armenian Genocide (1915 – 1917), Russian Revolution & Civil War (1917 – 1923), Irish War of Independence (1919 – 1921), Irish Civil War (1922 – 1923), Chinese Civil War (1927 – 1949), Chaco War (1932 – 1935), Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939), World War II (1939 – 1945), Greek Civil War (1946 – 1949), Israeli War of Independence (1948 – 1949), Korean War (1950 – 1953), Vietnam War (1955 – 1975), Rhodesian Bush War (1964 – 1979), Biafran War (Nigerian Civil War) (1967 – 1970), Cambodian Genocide (1975 – 1979), Iranian Revolution (1979), Iran–Iraq War (1980 – 1988), Operation Desert Storm (1990 – 1991), Bosnian War (1992 – 1995), Rwandan Genocide (1994), Iraq War (2003 – 2011), Syrian Civil War (2011 – Present), Syrian Civil War (2015), Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022 – Present)