The Emptiness of Victory
2022
David Stout
The Emptiness of Victory is an AI generated print series in the form of a fictional illustrated diary recounting the passage of innocents on a journey through unrelenting assaults. Each image in the series represents a scar. Scars left in the psyche, in the fields, farms, skies, skin, heart and home. Scars formed into the twisted metal anti-monuments of patriarchal rage and its discontents. Scars mapping the wounds passed from place to place, time to time, one generation to the next, to the next, to the next…
