“Helo Girl” | Scottie Kersta-Wilson

Title: “Helo Girl”

Artist: Scottie Kersta-Wilson

Size: 24×48

Medium: Photocollage

Artist Statement: This is a photocollage from a photo of my childhood with helicopter blades from a photograph taken during the Vietnam War. The photo of the little girl with the hula hoop was taken right after my father returned from his first tour in Vietnam in 1957. The helicopter image is from 1967 during my father’s second tour there, in which he was KIA in a helicopter crash. We circle and spin through life innocent of unintended consequences that will shape us all. I feel that if we don’t learn from our history, war and otherwise, we are forever doomed to repeat it.

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