Cite AsNew York Harbor Hospital Creative Arts Program Collection, Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History
SummaryDrawings of artist in a guard tower, another in civilian clothes with collaged bomb blasts. Artwork made for project: American, veteran, me, 2012, in response to the prompt: Draw what you looked like prior to military service. Exhibition label: In transition by Tsunami Roberts, cardboard, paper and drawing, 20 H x 30 W inches, 2012. Iraq War veteran Tsunami Roberts' artwork presents two self portraits of him; one in combat and one in civilian life. Red bombs blast throughout the picture because life has obstacles whether you are a civilian or a soldier. In the combat photo, Tsunami is on guard duty and he utilized camouflage stripes to section off this piece of his life. To the left of the base that he is guarding we see evidence of Iraq itself with its desert and its mosques. In the civilian self portrait, we see that he is casually dressed and his hair is fashionably sectioned off into corn rows. He states “I want to get back to being the person that I was before I went to war. Veterans Support Center has helped me to understand civilian life better.”
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