Father of All Retrievers

Original Watercolor Painting, 36" x  30"

This image of a obedient  Golden Retriever, retrieving the news of the day while wading through an oil slicked beach, and ignoring a gulls territory, symbolized to me the dogged commitment to WINNING no matter the cost.  

As I read the news reports and watched the fires pump poisonous gas into the air, rhetoric like 'surgical strike' and 'scorched earth' seemed irrational and inconceivable as it destroyed so much in so short a time.  The obsession to 'dominate and command' on a global scale terrorized many nations around the world.

We send the innocent to retrieve that which is lost by the irresponsible from the self-serving.  What is destroyed in the process is irrelevant to 'reaching the objective'. 

Today we fight over oil, tomorrow, we face the ugly reality of  fighting the 'mother of all ecological wars', for clean air to breath and pure water to drink.