Title

No nukes in the Pacific.

Author

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Source

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Type

About the work

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

No nukes in the Pacific (1984) and Still life (1984). Both posters were produced out of my concern during the 1980s for the continual armaments build-up by the super-powers and the continued nuclear blasts in the Pacific. Still life — the floating text reads as an ambiguous message (Nature Morte). The starkness of the central black image contrasts with the background colours; the vase, as act~down bomb amid its bouquet of military hardware; the world table where the powerful and few play out their strategic games. This is juxtaposed with the integrated image and text wallpaper background which together negate this scenario.

© Pam Debenham, July 1992.