Drawings
Slaughterhouse 5 I
Charcoal and silver colored pencil on mat illustration board
32 in x 40 in
2011
This is one of two interpretations of Kurt Vonnegut Jr's book, Slaughterhouse Five, which suggests that in war survival is transient. Billy Pilgrim, identified by the silver Cinderella boot, survived the bombing of Dresden by barricading himself and other prisoners of war in a slaughterhouse. Because this was a strange story, I wanted to interpret Billy's survival of the bombing in a strange way by showing Billy barricading himself inside a rotten, broken, fragile carcass, which represents the slaughterhouse itself. The carcass as well as the slaughterhouse could easily be destroyed.