Hope Springs Eternal

Politics and the reason wars exist aside, nice composition and effort John!! Lots of things to look at!

Wonderful, John. Great detail in the piece while expressing your thoughts and emotions.

Nice art, John. I think that we all share your pain.

FWIW, I want to remind folks in case they forget, when commenting on the art and its social relevance, that we avoid comments on two topics (religion and politics) because it seemingly always descends into people behaving as though this were Facebook and combating hate with hate. This is a woodturning forum, a place of civil discourse. There are plenty of places on the internet where those two topics are welcomed with open "arms" as the flambe du jour.

I had to reluctantly delete one comment because it included comments about the politics of the war in Ukraine. While avoiding political commentary presents a difficult needle to thread, I think that we can focus on people rather than the politics.

Thanks Bill. I had no concept this piece would cause controversy. It was pulled from one forum because of politics. Another forum debated pulling it but decided that since inwas promoting peace it could stay.

The hammer and sickle flag was the correct choice.