Thoughts for exhibition

I'm looking to submit my work for an exhibition entitled "War and the Body". What follows is a fleshing out (warts and all) of why I think that 3 of my works should be included.
The one seen above on the right called "God would have mercy. Jon Rambo won't." pokes fun at a few things. One is the body of warrior; it is supposed to be idealized. The soldier has flaws as a human, but they are spackled so that the fighting force they represent as an individual does not get muddied. The idealized warrior is nothing new. Achilles comes to mind. But this can be dangerously misleading. Rambo, for instance, is the unbound and idealized soldier from Vietnam. Rambo was vehicle for Cold War propaganda. Rambo 3 presents the Mujaheddin as kinfolk of the revolutionary patriots of the US. Never mind that in 2001 the crows came home to roost.
On the left I have a work that represents the lack of attention by the American people to the plight of the soldier. The space in which the image takes place is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art where Egyptian art is displayed. Is this the only interface that Americans can access the "orient"? It doesn't seem to matter to the visitors. No matter how bad the burnt out humvee is, the human is missing. Because of severity of wounds, an open casket ceremony is not always available to the families of the dead. Here, despite the horror, people forget the soldier (body).

Hopefully I can hone this down to 2 or 3 sentences for my submission.

Stuff happened

Knowing that I am going to make much more frequent posts to my blog, I'm previewing my future inventory. My wife and I went to Italy; many pictures of the country will be forthcoming. And on that note I'm going to share the works that may or may not take inspiration from them.

OK, enough inflated language. I went. I saw. I... damn! Stay tuned. Something will happen.