POINT OF ENTRY

© Bill Woodrow

POINT OF ENTRY 1989

Bill Woodrow (1948 – )

Details

Dimension
35.7 X 299.2 X 110.6
Media
CARDBOARD INTO BRONZE
Accession number
P5769

Summary

MUM 

child’s and/or other familiar word for mother.

 

DAD                          

child’s and/or other familiar word for father.

 

WAR                          

quarrel, often between nations, that is conducted by military force.  There are at present wars or armed conflicts in the following countries:- Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala,  India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru,             Philippines, Somalia,   South Africa, Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Turkey, United Kingdom

 

DEAD FLESH          

the currency of wars

 

POINT OF ENTRY  

a medical/military term for the exact position where a bullet strikes and enters a human body.  Very often a relatively small, neat wound in comparison to those made internally, or in the exit area.

 

 

Letter from the Artist dated 12th March 1990