LENNY
& THE BLACK RIDERS Excerpts from a sketchbook by Warren Criswell in sumi ink & other media from July 1982 to September 2001
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After
the attacks of September 11, 2001, I felt the need for some kind
of artistic response. Not that it would do any good, but just
to express what I was feeling. I wanted to put some image on
my homepage, but the only appropriate source I could think of
was an old sketch book I did in the '80s--just an exercise book,
really--which I called Lenny and the Black Riders, referring
to drawings of Leonard Bernstein conducting Mahler and Verdi,
and of the Black Riders from Tolkien's Lord of the Rings.
Love and art vs. hate and destruction--that was the idea.
The drawings were almost entirely from TV--news, movies,
commercials, whatever. The following three web pages are excerpts
from the book....... According to the late Osama bin Ladin: "The
events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982
when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the
American Sixth Fleet helped them in that.... And as I looked
at those demolished towers in Lebanon, it entered my mind that
we should punish the oppressor in kind and that we should destroy
towers in America in order that they taste some of what we tasted
and so that they be deterred from killing our women and children."
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THIS BOOK IS DIVIDED INTO 3 PARTS AND PRESENTED ON 3 WEB PAGES:
CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE AND STEP THOUGH THE DRAWINGS |