The picture of a Bogside mural at the top of this Diary is partly a Provo embellishment of history. Father Edward (later Bishop) Daly did carry a white handkerchief as he was helping the wounded to safety under fire. But there were no Provo gunman offering their "protection" to the unarmed and wounded civilians. That was the time when the letters IRA were mockingly referred to as standing for "I Ran Away".
It is quite obvious in the picture that the armed man is a paratrooper, his shoulder patch is quite clear, wearing an anti-tear gas mask. To emphasise that he is depicted trampling on a bloody Civil Rights" banner.
He is also the more prominent and largest subject of the picture to emphasise that the paratroopers were the Active and Responsible Participants who loom large over all other persons depicted.
This mural is also an indictment of the CRA, as well as the paratroopers. Clearly showing them hiding behind a wall as others died, unable to protect the community, and only concerned with saving themselves as others stepped forward. the message from the IRA here is "This is what we, and only we, save you from" keep to the Fen Causeway
So the artistic licence invoked by the mural painter doesn't quite work for me either way - there was no one with a gun standing to provide cover for the wounded - and the attempt to use the mural to show a paratrooper stamping on civil rights ends up giving a misleading impression that he was standing with the civilians.
I will amend the diary to avoid further confusion. Index of Frank's Diaries
Art does not portray events as they were, it attempts to show what they mean.
i really like that aphorism. is it original?
it reminds me of picasso's 'art is the lie which tells the truth'
very pithy, thanks ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Picasso's version is waaaay better keep to the Fen Causeway
Although many of the artists I know would not recognize that statement, because they do not work from identifiable events, but from presences.
Another version, closer to my own view, is that all art exploits bugs in the human system, basically within the brain (which includes the optic system). And the biggest bug is in thinking that experience 'makes sense' - that is it has meaning. You can't be me, I'm taken
And the biggest bug is in thinking that experience 'makes sense' - that is it has meaning.
um, that's a feature.
your homunculus is out to play... get him back in his box, quick! ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
