The Gallery II--The Hideous Evil Among Us

Gallery II--the hideous evil among Us among us is ready for viewing at Reil 51, 47, 27. The photographs here display the Holocaust, and the Khmer Rouge, Armenian, Chinese, and American democides. I will change one photo each week, and all are free.

It is shown below.


Each Sunday, I will moderate a discussion event at noon, here. It will focus on the democide displayed, the latest photo, or painting shown, and what artists can do about it.

Below is one of the photos now hanging in the gallery.


The plaque included with the photo says this:

From April 1970 to January 1979 the communist Khmer Rouge guerrillas, and then as absolute dictators of Cambodia when they won their guerrilla war in 1974, murdered about 2,000,000 Cambodians and 35,000 Vietnamese. One of the security facilities (prisons) the Khmer Rouge created was Tuol Sleng, an extermination center in which they tortured and murdered some 20,000 people. Only fourteen prisoners may have survived. The Khmer Rouge photographed each new inmate, and these photographs have now become available in an attempt to identify the victims. Here is one of these photographs, that of a young girl whose name and "crime" are unknown, but who almost certainly soon ended up dead.

Why am I doing this? I love beauty, as you can see from The Gallery. But, I also hate this democide that is so much of our world, but its extent is virtually unknown. I want to recognize and honor these millions of victims, bring them to the attention of all, and show in contrast how precious is the world of beauty. Beauty and the beast are among us, but artists display only half of this.