Bonfire & Faith Poster

I think I like this ongoing history-related collage image making because it is a sort of visual meditation. Themes are emerging and repeating, connections are forging. On February 7th in 1942 one of my favourite artists, Ivan Bilibin, died during the Siege of Leningrad. He studied in München with a Slovene painter, married one, then another of his Irish students in St Petersburg, emigrated after the revolution but then came back to his city to perish during WW2. There was a religion - propelled "bonfire of the vanities" (cosmetics, art and books (!) in Florence on this day in 1497 and the leader of the Guarani rebels was killed in 1756. Some people consider him a saint. Fire, faith, wars, art, vanity, injustice, exile, beauty and fighting for freedom. All mixed up in history and in almost any individual life too. "Co ivi oguerecó iara" - "Esta terra tem dono!" "This land has owners!"