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Title: “The Inescapable Eye of Conscience”
Artist: Ben Weise
Medium: Collage
Size: 6’ by 2 ½’
Artist Statement: The piece is a collage of pages taken from magazines that were published during my return from Vietnam in 1969. The pictorial content moves like the sun, from East to West, i.e. from right to left, and ends in darkness.

Bio: Ben Weise is a retired adjunct professor of ESL and Academic Writing at Rutgers University. His work has appeared in publications such as As You Were, Silhouette Press, Cosmographia Books, Wanderlust, Blue Nostalgia, and Pearl River Quarterly.

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