Bold as Love with Artist Adam Parker Smith

This story begins where another ends; in the small village of Avila where Ernest Hemingway bequeaths a tale of glory, brutality and ugly rebellion. Beneath the steeples where tolling bells call the faithful to pray, fascist are rounded up and held captive. The lingering townspeople are placed by their leader outside the church in two lines as they would be to watch the ending of a bicycle race with just enough room for the cyclists to pass between. Standing in the doorway the condemned face a narrowed corridor of villagers wielding flays, herdsmen’s clubs, ox goads, wooden pitchforks, broken bottles, sticks and reaping hooks. One by one the prisoners are forced through the doors at gun point and walking between the lines are consumed by a carnivalesque execution. Responsibility is shared. Blood drips. Bold as Love.

Student Artist
Emily Frierdich, Algonquin
Elgin Community College

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