Re: Mommy Liberty
When Dan emailed me the link to this post (earlier tonight/this morning, in fact), I sent back a short note of thanks and a comment I'll repeat here:
A sword might have been more classically appropriate in the hand of "the Goddess of Liberty", as she was called in Tiananmen Square. Justice carries one, too.
After thinking about it some more, I'll expand it -
Artists, on our behalf, use the symbolism that speaks to our own time. In the face of the Destruction of the Towers, the breaching of the Pentagon and the heroic sacrifice in the Pennslvania mountains, a magnum in the hands of a mother protecting her child is hardly disturbing - a sword seems somehow ineffectual.
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