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Over the past two decades, Carl Gopalkrishnan's artwork has garnered international recognition for his ability to forge meaningful connections between art & literature and the complex dynamics driving international law, intervention and global conflict. Carl transforms familiar cultural artefacts into new myths so legal and military minds can explore the creative, subconscious and emotional stories that shape their doctrines of war & peace. (Photograph copyright © Amanda Brown 1992)

Carl Gopalkrishnan (aka Gopal) Carl Gopalkrishnan (aka Gopal)

Studio Notes: New Painting ‘Livni as the Sibyl of Cumae with dancing Follies’. 2009

A lot of the issues which have arisen since Obama's Egyptian speech reminded me of the prophetic silence of the 'Sibyl of Cumae' (Roman prophecies, Homeric stories, Virgil's Aeneid VI etc). It is exploring the role of prophecy in modern political life. Lately I have been thinking about "Tzipi" Livni's 'non-presence' in the evolving public discussion around the search for peace.

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