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I'm Judith Bernstein, I'm an artist.
One piece is the Vietnam Garden
and it's actually a piece that is a drawing,
and they are phalluses that have a cross on them
and a Jewish star. They are really metaphors for tombstones.
And they have Brillo where the *** hair is.
So they are very direct and they are anti-war.
LBJ is a collage. So you have LBJ
with a lot of *** hair around him, which is Brillo.
And there's also a phallus coming in, coming in to-
to the area that's surrounding him. It has graffiti that says,
"LBJ's worse than Hitler". And things that are actually,
they're exaggerated but it's what you had to say at the time.
You had to scream it for people to hear it.
There was a lot of things going on that all had to do
with that raucousness, with that raw energy,
with the rage that people had.
There are a lot of other images from that time frame.
Obviously I've taken a collage from the flag,
this is a horrible bomb that you see from 1966
that was in the Times. This had to do with
how much money and how many people were killed,
how many people were killed a day.
"I'd rather save my *** than Johnson's face".
"Going to Vietnam, leaving behind a beautiful wife and two wonderful children
hope I come back." There was a lot of "Hey, hey LBJ,
how many kids did you kill today?"
Some of the graffiti is funny, but nevertheless there's a sinisterism
that is underlining it. It's actually a brutality.
When something is funny, you laugh, so it's in some ways it's almost...like an ***
so you get a release by laughing at it,
by laughing with the viewer when you see it,
but it's dead serious.