CENTENARY SOLDIER
Should we remember?
Centenary Soldier Sketch, 2014
Ink on paper
Edition 20
H21 x W30 x D2cm
© Mark Humphrey
COLLABORATORS
Royal Engineers Museum
LOCATION
Chatham, Kent, UK
“CENTENARY SOLDIER FRAMED SKETCH PRESENTS AN UNNAMED FIRST WORLD WAR SOLDIER STANDING PROUD IN QUIET REFLECTION. THE FIGURE IS INSPIRED BY THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER AND DERIVES FROM MY EVERY ONE REMEMBERED OBELISK STATUE, UNVEILED IN TRAFALGAR SQUARE IN 2014.
HIS EYES ARE CLOSED. RATHER THAN LOOKING OUT AT THE WORLD, HE TURNS INWARD, CREATING A MOMENT OF STILLNESS AND CONTEMPLATION. THE CLOSED EYES SUGGEST REMEMBRANCE NOT AS SOMETHING SIMPLY OBSERVED, BUT SOMETHING FELT – A MOMENT TO REFLECT ON THOSE WHO FOUGHT, THOSE WHO WERE LOST AND THOSE WHO CARRIED THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR.”
Mark Humphrey
