Riffing on the line of Emily Dickinson’s “Tell all the Truth, but Tell it Slant” which is about the acceptance of the truth. Dickenson’s poem was published in 1890 but written at some point between 1858 and 1865 during the years leading up to and including the civil war.

From Natasha Mayers on her War Chests:

“This current War Chests series started in November 2019 during the impeachment hearings, when it was easy to visualize the President as an emperor, with or without clothes. The war chests are decorated with an array of medals, bars and stripes, epaulettes, braids, sashes, and tattoos. They are often headless, intoxicated with their own power, dangerous, blind, in a world full of violence toward one another and the planet, with men, historically, at the center of the problem. The work reflects anger, frustration, a sense of the absurd, and analysis of what masculine power, white privilege and tradition have wrought. I talk about what is scary and threatening to me/ us with a touch of irony, humor, pattern, exuberant color, and eccentricity.”