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In her expressionistic War series, Spero employs the atomic bomb as a symbol of overwhelming state power and indiscriminate annihilation. She also depicts weaponry associated with the U.S. air war in Vietnam. Trying to imagine how Vietnamese civilians saw "these technological monsters wreaking destruction on them," she portrays helicopters and bombers as terrifying and sometimes animalistic machines. Here Spero abandons oil paint on canvas and embraces antiwar subject matter, purposefully rebelling against the preferences of mainstream collectors and gallerists. |