SWD 60

Karen Hall, a 20 year old American student, died on Pan Am 103, which blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, Dec. 21, 1988. In Oct. 2015 Donald Trump praised Qaddafi, the deposed and slain Libyan dictator who took responsibility for the terrorism attack.

The art includes allegorical sea monsters drawings and wood pieces.  

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Background, two news articles:  A CNN news article, Oct. 25 2015:
https://www.cnn.com/2015/10/25/politics/donald-trump-moammar-gadhafi-saddam-hussein  /  
The Guardian UK,  23 Feb 2011:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/feb/23/gaddafi-lockerbie-bombing-minister-libya

Art: Drawing begun in pencil, March 8, 2025; framing completed May 27, 2025.
Media: Drawing in ink, pencil, rapidograph ink, watercolor, gouache; there are collaged on pieces of a 1984 airline ticket. The frame includes pieces of metal; wood pieces from a child's board game; bamboo; wood frame molding.
Framed size: 28.5 inches H [72.39 cm. H] x 23.5 inches W [59.69 cm W]

The art includes 2 drawings I drew autumn semester 1974 for a workbook assignment for a Fundamentals of Art class, School of Art, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. d These 3 rapidograph (technical drawing pen) drawings were of an 1810 etching, plate 32, Porque? (Why?) by Goya (Spanish, 1746-1858) from his Disasters of War
(Los Desastres de la Guerra) series; and a 1916 - 1917 rotogravure print by George Grosz (dual citizenship, Germany and America, 1893-1959) titled (in English translation:) "In three days you'll be fit for field duty!"
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Segan's drawing of the Grosz drawing and the Goya etching were for a Fundamentals of Art workbook assignment; each student in the class made a workbook addressing various aspects of visual art.
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Francisco Goya was Spanish, born 1746. He died in Bordeaux , France, 1828.
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Grosz was born in Berlin, 1893. In 1933 Grosz and his family moved to the United States, living in Bayside, Queens; and he became a naturalized American citizen. He died in W. Berlin, 1959.
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Grosz was one of a number of American, European, British and Mexican visual artists and photographers active between-the-world-war years, whose art and photography Segan admired and studied during his undergrad college years in the early to mid 1970's. ~
Yet many were immensely unpopular at the time. The very popular 1970's art critic and author Barbara Rose (b. 1936; d. 2020) dismissed the WPA photographer and visual artist Ben Shahn in a dismissive sentence or two in a then-very popular art criticism - art history book she authored, "American Art Since 1900: A Critical History." (F.A. Praeger, N.Y., published 1967).
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Thankfully there has been a resurgence of interest in recent years in Shahn and other artists who were dismissed and tossed in the garbage can in the 70's.
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The overall drawing has attached paper pieces of a 1984 British Airways ticket from British Airlines flights I took that summer, New York to London; London to Warsaw and back to London.
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Other imagery is a small landscape, featuring houses, 2 trees, a toy plane and a seagull which I drew in the backyard of Monifeith house, in June 2011, of a family I knew professionally; the parents were a head school teacher, Angus district; and a school librarian, Dundee.
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I guest taught in Scotland during six teaching trips between 2008 and 2015. In 1987 I lived in Scotland for 5 months while I was International Artist-in-Residence, Aberdeen Art Gallery. There are 3 seaweed sketches I drew in Aberdeen, Scotland, August 1987.
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And a  pencil sketch of an anthill, W. Palm Beach,Fla., 1990's.
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Background: In 2015 presidential candidate Donald Trump praised the late Libyan leader Gaddafi, who took responsibility for the Dec. 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103. ~ Of Gaddafi, his first name was Muammar. In transliteration to English from Arabic, his surname is spelled Gaddafi, Gadhafi, or Qaddafi.
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270 people died from the bombing. Victims included 190 Americans; 43 citizens of the U.K., including 11 people on the ground in Lockerbie, Scotland, and citizens of Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Philippines, So. Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago.  

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In April 2003, the Libyan government agreed to pay more than 3 billion dollars to victims' families after accepting "civil responsibility" for the attack.
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ABC News, July 6 '16: Trump said during the CNN-Telemundo Republican candidates' debate in February: "We would be so much better off if Gaddafi were in charge right now."
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Gadhafi was ousted, slain, Oct. 2011.
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In Youtube, type SWD 60 A K Segan to see video pt 1 to 55) of stages of working on the artwork. Other videos (to be posted) of people I will invite to see the artwork.
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Art © A K Segan
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