Dream Plane: War Stories
​2016 - In Process

Visit the separate website for this extensive, ongoing Project.
www.dreamplanewarstories.com
Communication & Barriers To Communication
Untold war stories, secret information, suppressed feelings and fears,
the subtle limits to all communication that military training demands of young soldiers,the heritage of silence that damages the emotional life of veterans and their families.
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Dream Plane: War Stories will be about communication and barriers to communication. This project will try to reveal the facts of the air-war missions during World War II as visualized through the personal experiences of the artist. Untold war stories, secret information, and suppressed feelings and fears come to the surface and are reflected visually through memorabilia and images that could have been experienced by many American families who shared their lives with veterans from this era. 
At a higher level of recognition, the artist will also explore the subtle limits to all communication that military training demands of young soldiers, and the heritage of silence that damages the emotional life of veterans and their families. In this sense, it is an important women’s issue concerning family and trauma and the experience of violence.
www.dreamplanewarstories.com
I Envision Dream Plane: War Stories in this way:
An old wooden table with mismatched wooden chairs (my grandparents’ dining furniture) stands in a stage-like room. On the table are letters, photographs and a radio. Wallpaper of the endless squadron formations is army green and covers all the walls. The name Kreisher is next to one plane and appears several times along the walls. Familiar names of friends he had mentioned are on nearby planes. There is no ceiling on the room, just dark open space. Uncle Forrest’s WWII wool army coat flies above the room with the arms spread like a plane, and it is lit from above to cast its shadow across the table at which  viewers can sit and examine images and messages, old ad new....KK
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