Produced throughout the top of the Vietnam Conflict, Corita Kent’s cease the bombing (1967) captures the nation’s rising anti-war sentiments. That includes a poem by Gerald Huckaby set amidst a manipulated newspaper headline, this serigraph displays Corita’s shift in direction of politically charged messages in response to the socially tumultuous panorama of the Sixties. The work embodies her deepening dedication to addressing international points and calling for peace.
It’s 2024, Thanksgiving week and an election has occurred in America whereas struggle rages in quite a few fronts internationally whereas civil discourse has grow to be extra confrontational than ever imagined. But one thing so easy and timeless as this message from the nun-turned-social activist is one thing we will place in our pockets for 2025. On November 23, 2024, Corita Kent’s unimaginable legacy can be celebrated on the Philosophical Analysis Society in Los Angeles, which we hope to see you at.—Evan Pricco
I’m in Vietnam–who will console me?
I’m scared of bombs, of chilly moist leaves and bamboo splinters in my ft, of a bullet cracking
via the bushes, internationally, killing me–there is a bullet in my mind, behind my eyes, so
that every one I see is ache I’m in vietnam–who will console me? from the six o’clock information, from the
headlines lurking on the road, between the indignant love songs on the radio, from the frightened
hawks and indignant doves I meet a struggle I cannot battle is killing me–I’m in vietnam, who will
console me?
Cease the Bombing
