About This Item

  • TitleTransition.
  • Call NumberVETS_0134
  • Cite AsNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
  • SummaryDrawing of artist before and after service. Artwork made for project: American, veteran, me, 2012, in response to the prompt: Draw what you looked like prior to military service. Exhibition label: Transition by Henry Gomez, cardboard, paper and drawing, 20 H x 30 W inches, 2012. Iraq War veteran Henry Gomez’s work explores the transition that he experienced from his youth to serving in the military. He felt that he became more assertive and physically stronger. He portrays himself as being a physically muscular man who wears camouflage pants. The challenge upon being discharged from the military is to return to being who he was and to remind everyone that they should never forget what veterans have had to endure.
  • Date2012
  • Formatstill image
  • Physical Description1 image file : digital, JPG, color
  • Genrecollages (visual works)drawings (visual works)
  • NoteTitle supplied by creator.
  • CreatorGomez, Henry
  • SubjectVeterans--United States ; Iraq War, 2003-2011--Veterans ; Self-portraits
  • CollectionVeterans Creative Arts Program collection
  • PlaceBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
  • RightsCopyright restrictions apply to the use of this work. For more information or to obtain a reproduction of this work, contact the Center for Brooklyn History at Brooklyn Public Library.
  • Copyright OwnerNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program