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Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Blog Archives
Over the past two decades, Carl Gopalkrishnan's artwork has garnered international recognition for his ability to forge meaningful connections between art & literature and the complex dynamics driving international law, intervention and global conflict. Carl transforms familiar cultural artefacts into new myths so legal and military minds can explore the creative, subconscious and emotional stories that shape their doctrines of war & peace. (Photograph copyright © Amanda Brown 1992)
Open Letter: Red, White & Blue = Lavender. In 2024 we turn desperately to our young people to paint a better future.
Creation is not only for artists. Students who are discovering their voices to call for a ceasefire in Gaza are, collectively, creating a moment in history. Those opposing it will apply the same silencing, disparaging comments, and threats, as they have to artists who have challenged doctrine for millennia.
In Memoriam: Rest in Peace US Air Force engineer Aaron Bushnell. Young people of conscience please reach out. We need you. 26th Feb 2024
I wept when I witnessed the video of US Airman Aaron Bushnell setting himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in America in protest at the Gaza War, and later passing away from his injuries. It cannot not be spoken of…What cuts through my own emotions is a real need to plead to everyone hurting out there - please reach out and connect with others - and young people of conscience, please don’t leave us. We need you more than ever.
New Painting: ‘Gaza, Monsters of the Id. A painting in red, white and blue’ I turn this painting against the wall before I sleep, Jan 2024
Artists paint especially when there are no words left…
Rearview Mirror 2009: Angels and Pears; And Starring Benjamin Netanyahu as Norman Maine; Livni as the Sibyl of Cumae with Dancing Follies, Gaza Wedding
On this tragic, painful week for both innocent Israeli victims of the Hamas attacks and innocent Palestinian civilian families suffering in Israel’s bombings and water, electricity, medicine and food siege of Gaza, I am reposting some paintings I did around 2009/10 after the Gaza War of 2008-9…and nearly fifteen years later, they have lost none of their meaning for me.