kore loy wildrekinde/mcwhirter

redhanded: a songe forre the loste is a series of thirteen line etchings and thirteen accompanying poems. The working title of the series has been: the underside of family values and other anaerobicke socialle systemmes. Like the wailing wall and war memorials, I have made these etchings and poems as a witness and place of mourning and remembrance for those, particularly the children and most specifically girls, who are broken and lost to the commonplace hidden and overt rituals of violence in which children live.

This series is meant as an enduring testimony to the vulnerability of children to violence training and the consequent loss of the abundant humanity to which each child is born. Many children become habituated to unremitting dread that affects how we come to perceive the world. I tried to draw what it feels like for a child trapped in ongoing unpredictable terror.

- - statement by the artist