We See No Evil
We see no evil - Venice, 2004
Do we choose to ignore evil or just pretend that we don’t see so that we cannot be blamed? Are these the sacks we put over our eyes to avoid knowing or the hoods of those waiting for a bullet or worse?
The picture is of burlap wrapped rose bushes in the Volksgarten, Vienna; protected from the assault of the Austrian winter. But the sacked bush heads remind us of other, darker, images and bleaker realities that we would prefer not to know.
