Filed under: Exhibition Space, Infopipes, Visual Resistance | Tags: ANZAC, army, Australia, Ben Templesmith, horror, imagery, war, wartime
Ben Templesmith made a wonderful poster for ANZAC day in Australia, which is on April 25th. A day not for glorifying victories but for remembering the futility and waste of life that is war.
“How well I remember that terrible day
How the blood stained the sand and the water
And how in that hell that they called Suvia Bay
We were butchered like the lambs at the slaughter
Johnny Turk he was ready, he primed himself well
He chassed us with bullets, he rained us with shells
And in five minutes flat he’d blown us all to hell
Nearly blew us right back to Australia
But the band played Waltzing Matilda
As we stopped to bury our slain
We buried ours and Turks buried theirs
Then we started all over again”
And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
by Eric Bogle
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