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"Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them."

-Franz Marc

 

  

Surrender yourself to more than you can SEE

Surrender yourself to more than you can TOUCH

Surrender yourself to more than you

can SMELL

Surrender yourself to more than you can TASTE

Surrender yourself to more than you can HEAR

Surrender yourself to GOD

 

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Unconditional Surrender is a series of sculptures by J Seward Johnson resembling a photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, V–J day in Times Square, but said by Johnson to be based on a similar, less well known, photograph by Victor Jorgensen.

 

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Surrendered everything in front of goddess , my weapon , my soul ,..,!

 

Festival of red ,. Kodungallore bhrani ,. Kerala India

This photograph shows Commandant-General and President of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic P. H. Pearse surrendering to Brigadier General Lowe of the British forces on 29 April 1916 in Moore St. After witnessing three terrified civilians being shot down while brandishing a white flag, Pearse decided that it was time for the 1916 Rising to come to an end "in order to prevent the further slaughter of Dublin citizens'. All of the other leaders of the Rising present in H.Q. in Moore Street (except Thomas Clarke) agreed and Pearse eventually offered British forces under Lowe both his unconditional surrender and his (ceremonial) sword.

 

The most interesting feature of this photograph is that if you look closely, you'll notice that there is an extra pair of feet beside Pearse's (the man on the right). Standing to Pearse's right in this photograph is Nurse Elizabeth O'Farrell, who acted as an intermediary between rebel H.Q. and British forces and also (showing considerable bravery) carried Pearse's order of surrender to the other rebel garrisons. The fact that Nurse O'Farrell is obscured from view through the angle of this photograph is an apt metaphor for how the important role played by women in the 1916 Rising was later eclipsed in the early years of independence through the veneration of the male martyred leaders of the Rising and through the domination of positions of power by men.

 

Read more about 1916: Women Behind the Men

YRP Detective Constable Plunkett and his son’s grave always brings a tear to my eyes despite the fact that I never met him. YRP Chris Barratt, is currently the National Canadian President of the International Police Association (IPA) knew him and had high regard for him. We honour the man, his family, and his service.

 

The two replacement flags with extended poles were erected to represent the respects being paid to Rob and his family by members of the International Police Association Region 2 Toronto Ontario Canada’s. IPA R2. Flags should never be dragged on the ground as that would disrespect the flag.

I also added a poppy as there had been a poppy present during many of our previous visits.

 

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Torstar: A routine police surveillance operation on the trail of thieves stealing cars and airbags ended in tragedy yesterday when a veteran York Regional Police officer was dragged to his death while trying to arrest a suspect on a quiet residential street in Markham.

York Regional Police Chief Armand La Barge called Const. Rob Plunkett, 43, a "true hero" and said his death marks a dark day for the small GTA force that last lost an officer in the line of duty in 1984.

One man has been charged with manslaughter, the other with theft-related offences.

Both accused were on bail for other charges.

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The drama unfolded just before dawn yesterday after investigators had followed a white Honda Civic, registered to a home in Ajax, and a gold Honda, which was stolen but not yet reported as such, from an address in Toronto to Ascot Cres., a winding, tree-lined street not far from Steeles Ave. and Kennedy Rd.

There has been a rash of airbag thefts across York Region, particularly in Markham.

Since January, there have been 43 incidents of airbag thefts and investigators had zeroed in on a couple of suspects.

The undercover officers watched the two cars pull over to the side of Ascot Cres., just around a bend, and saw the driver of the gold Honda attempt to remove an airbag. It was just after 5 a.m. when Plunkett approached the open driver's side, said La Barge.

"As Const. Plunkett attempted to arrest the suspect, the suspect put the vehicle into reverse, and accelerated over a curb, across a lawn and over several shrubs," he said.

Plunkett was then pinned by the open door as it struck a tree on the front lawn of 65 Ascot Cres. As the suspect tried to drive away, the officer was dragged onto a nearby lawn and thrown from the car.

The suspect continued to reverse across the lawn, "at which time assisting officers rammed the vehicle to stop its progress," said La Barge. The suspect fled the car but was quickly arrested.

The second suspect was also arrested trying to flee.

Police said they didn't know why the suspects chose Ascot, except at that time of day it is still dark and there are no surveillance cameras in the immediate area.

Kuo Wan Liu was awake inside his Ascot Cres. home. "There was a big bang noise once, and then a second one," Liu said. "It was not normal. Ascot Crescent is very quiet."

Soon after, a group of people outside were yelling, "`Bleeding! Bleeding! Bleeding!' Very loud," he said.

It's unclear how many officers were at the scene when Plunkett moved in. La Barge said other officers were in the area and responding when Plunkett moved in to make the arrest.

The 22-year veteran had identified himself as a police officer, but detectives will look at what he was wearing and what identification he had, said homicide Det. Kevin Torrie.

Plunkett, married and the father of a daughter, 18, and sons 16 and 14, was rushed to Scarborough Grace Hospital, where he died.

Nadeem Jiwah, 19, has been charged with manslaughter. He was on a recognizance order to live at Hawkeshead Cres.

Baseer Yousafzai, 23, is facing various charges of theft and mischief. He is a landed immigrant from Afghanistan. They're scheduled to make a court appearance in Newmarket today.

A charge of first-degree murder requires evidence of planning and specific intent, second-degree murder covers a "spur of the moment" decision to kill with no planning, and a manslaughter charge can be laid when someone commits an unlawful act that results in someone's death, criminal lawyer Andrew McKay explained.

 

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TORONTO -- At last, the family of York Regional Police Det. Const. Rob Plunkett can begin to heal.

Nadeem Jiwa, the airbag thief convicted of manslaughter in Plunkett's death, has lost an appeal of his sentence and must do the dozen years behind bars he was given in 2011. No more excuses, no more stalling, no more whining. He must do his time.

 

For Amanda Plunkett, the good news came a day after a grim anniversary - Aug. 7 marked five years since her vibrant father was senselessly killed in the line of duty. From that day of horror, there have been so many difficult stages for the family to endure - Jiwa's preliminary hearing, the trial, a shocking verdict that came back not as murder but manslaughter, and then news that still not satisfied, he was appealing his sentence.

 

But now, finally, an end.

 

"It's been hanging over our heads," explained Plunkett's 22-year-old daughter, who is working this summer as an assistant youth probation officer. "We've been waiting for this decision and we can all rest easy now. We're relieved that this last little thing is over now. It's that last bit. There's nothing more he can do."

 

In a judgment released Wednesday, the Ontario Court of Appeal found Justice Michelle Fuerst's sentence was on the "very high end" for a youthful, first-time offender, but contrary to what his lawyers had argued, it was not demonstrably unfit.

 

"Police officers carry out an essential and responsible role in society," wrote Justice Eileen Gillese on behalf of a three-judge panel, quoting an earlier decision. "When a police officer is killed in the execution of duty, the community is understandably outraged. In imposing sentence, it is appropriate to reflect society's revulsion for this aspect of the offence."

 

In the early morning hours of that August day in 2007, 19-year-old Jiwa was on bail facing airbag theft charges and was out well past the 1 a.m. curfew when he was supposed to be tucked in at his mother's home. Instead, he was out with a friend in a Markham, Ont., neighbourhood, stealing a car and valuable airbags. Plunkett , 43, was part of an undercover surveillance unit watching Jiwa and his partner when they were given the order just before 5 a.m. to move in and make the arrests.

 

With the cops screaming, "Police, police," his partner in crime quickly surrendered, Not Jiwa. He jumped into his stolen gold Honda and threw it into reverse, crushing Plunkett against a tree. And even as the father of three lay collapsed on the ground, the thief kept on reversing. When his car was finally rammed to a stop, Jiwa tried to take off on foot.

 

He later insisted at his trial that hitting Plunkett had been an accident and he didn't know he was a police officer trying to arrest him.

 

Charged with first-degree murder, Jiwa was convicted by a jury of the lesser offence of manslaughter in 2011 and sentenced to 12 years in prison and a 10-year driving ban when he's released. In May, Jiwa's lawyers went to the appeal court to argue the sentence was too harsh for a first-offender with genuine remorse.

 

The learned judges disagreed.

 

"This was a very serious crime," wrote Justice Sarah Pepall. "Detective Plunkett was killed in the line of duty. His family and colleagues have been devastated by his death. I recognize that Mr. Jiwa was only 19 years of age at the time of the offence, had no previous record, showed some remorse and the killing was involuntary. Nonetheless, the offence was committed while he was on bail for pending air bag theft charges; he was driving a stolen vehicle having spent several hours stealing air bags; and he was in violation of his curfew."

 

The top court's decision was applauded by John Miskiw, Plunkett's friend and head of the York police association. "Sonja Plunkett and her children deserve some closure to the court process."

 

But, of course, 12 years doesn't mean 12 years at all and the family will soon have the parole system to confront: Given two-for-one credit for the almost four years he spent in custody, Jiwa has only three years left on his sentence. < As of Sept 2012.

A long line of Japanese officers wait to surrender their swords to the 25th Indian Division at Kuala Lumpur.this photo was in a box of my grandads things not sure if he took the photo or not as it was banned to take photos.but he was part of the honour gauard.

A fallschirmjäger surrendering to a group of Russians.

This was my first photo with the minolta.

 

Creative Directing & Photography By: ©Ámbar Ruiz 2010

Yoko Ono

New York Times, 25th Dec 1982

 

John and I were part of the huge crowd of world youth who grew up believing in the American idealism and its claim for human rights. We lived in societies under lingering Victorian influence while sharing the American Dream in our hearts.

 

The dream still lives. This is evident in the letters I receive from the world in sharp contrast to the prevailing pessimism here in the States. The world has witnessed American Spirit rising with remarkable resilience when it’s most needed and often when it’s least expected. No doubt it will again. My concern is how. We don’t need another martyr. We have had one too many.

 

Compare the two last times when the American Spirit has surged to bring justice to and for the nation. One being the Vietnam Peace Movement and the other, the Watergate Incident. No blame intended to any individual and group heroes, there was much painful bloodshed connected with the Peace Movement whereas there was none with Watergate. Heroes involved there were either silent or masked, and the incongruity of it was directly responsible to the unfolding of the case. I observed this as strong evidence of our growing awareness, that emotional radicalism is power play with emphasis on play, and peace nurtures peace as justice seeds justice. Sanity is allowing dichotomy, unity is discovering empathy, and harmony is a celebration of polarity. Our purpose is not to exert power but to express our need for unity despite the seemingly unconquerable differences. We as the human race have a history of losing our emotional equilibrium when we discover different thought patterns in others. Many wars have been fought as a result. It’s about time to recognize that it is all right to be wearing different hats as our heartbeat is always one.

 

I would like to propose a Nationwide Peace Poll to vote for peace versus nuclear holocaust of any size. The Poll should be clearly independent from Nuclear Disarmament and/ or gun control issues for now, as many of us feel a strong need for nuclear defence while regarding gun control a non-priority cause. Combining either or both of these issued with the Peace Poll would immediately reduce the Poll to a minority venture. The Poll should be authorized and organized by the Congress as a national undertaking for the sake of expedience alone, with the balloting through the media to minimize administrative expense. What the Peace Poll will do is to 1) show us where we stand in terms of individual and collective commitment to World Peace and 2) inspire the rest of the world to follow.

 

There may come a time, sooner than we imagine, when the world would feel safe to curtail production of nuclear arms. The cost cutback alone would be a direct financial gain to every country. Already some of us are starting to feel suspicious of the old myth that war is more lucrative than peace, especially after observing that the world’s largest weapon merchant, U.S.A, has not been exempt from the world economic crisis.

 

One could say that because of the times the people of the United States and their government have been given an opportunity to initiate World Peace. To take this initiative is to leave a tremendous legacy to our offspring, a legacy of our true concern for the future race and our planet. How can we ask our children to be caring when we ourselves show indifference to their fate? Smile to the future and it will smile back to us.

 

I pray that in the end gun control will cease to be an issue, as today’s misuse of guns may be due to the world tension for fear calls fear. A day may come when we will see governments offering to buy private guns for recycling, to, say, make domestic robots. A few guns perhaps would remain in museums next to the Early American spears for example as reminders of days when we used to kill each other to put stop to our lives before our natural deaths. Would they ever understand how much sorrow was caused by this instrument and its ritual I wonder? The true motivations for murdering one’s fellow human is and will be and eternal mystery to us.

 

In the beginning there was the Word. If the Universe was initially created by a word and its air play of seven days, wouldn’t it be a comparatively modest effort on our part to work together through affirmation and reaffirmation of our unity, to ensure the survival of our already existing planet? If, as we know now, all of us are only using less than 20% of our brains, it is not an exaggeration to say that our awareness knows no boundary, and a miracle is what we make of it.

 

The Eighties has become the most unusually beautiful, enlightened period in the history of the human race. It is as though the very tension has forced us to wake up from the long embryonic period we held on to. We are witnessing a unique society where all our feelings and thoughts have been brought out t the surface to be shared and re-examined. Not only that we have become closer to each other and wiser, but the wiser have become meeker and the meeker have become wiser thus making us truly one world.

 

In the summer of ’73 in New York City, John and I invited the press to announce the founding of a conceptual country called NUTOPIA. Anybody could be a citizen of this country. Citizens were automatically the country’s ambassadors. The country’s body was the airfield of our joint thoughts. Its constitution was our love, and its spirit, our dreams. Its flag was the white flag of surrender. A surrender to peace. We wished that one day we would take the flag to the United Nations and place it alongside the other flags as Nutopia was just another concept, as were concepts such as France, United States, and the Soviet Union. It was not a concept founded to threaten any other. At the time, the idea of “surrender” did not go down too well. A radical friend of ours expressed that he, too, disliked the term. “Surrender sounds like defeat,” he said. “Well, don’t you surrender to love, for instance?”, I looked at him. “No, he wouldn’t” I thought. “Are women the only people who know the pride and joy of surrender?” I wondered. “It’s a waste of time to explain to a macho radical, didn’t I tell you?” said John, a man who surrendered to the world, life and finally to Universe. “Anyway, don’t worry, Yoko. One day we’ll put it up there. You and I. I promise.” I still believe we will.

 

It is time for you to rise. It is you who will raise the flag. I feel that John and I, as a unit, have done our share. The rest of my life belongs to our son, Sean. It is your effort. Your flag. So remember, We Are Family. You and I are unity. In the Joy of Harmony, the World is One to Infinity. Speak out. Speak out of love and you need not fear. We will hear. America The Beautiful.

Surrender to Peace.

I love you.

Yoko Ono Lennon

December 25 ,1982

New York City.

 

P.S. Just now I received a call that a friend, Jamie Lubarr, was shot to death Christmas Eve. He was walking on the streets of New York to go to a party. Two people came from behind and shot him with no apparent reason.

 

I’m sorry Jamie. It was too late for you, ad for the approximately 24,000 sisters and brothers who were shot to death this year in U.S.A just with handguns alone (F.B.I Unified Reported Crime Statistics, Washington, D.C from January to October ’82). This means one every thirty minutes. The rising violence is a world phenomenon in varying shades of cruelty. Closing our eyes to it will not make it disappear.

 

I have not slept well since John died. One beside light is always lit through the night. It is as though I have no right to sleep in the comfort of darkness. I have my moments of joy and laughter. Night is when I face myself, John, and the dreams we dreamt together. There is anger and sorrow. Still, gun for gun is not the way. If we took that route, pretty soon, you would be hearing me say, “Well, thank God, we’re alive. That’s ‘cause my son is such a good marksman.” I don’t want to live that way. Forget the moral implication for a moment. How do we sleep? There is always a better marksman somewhere.

 

So I say it again. Speak out. Speak out of the wisdom of love- through love we have the power to create Heaven on Earth as Love is heaven and heaven is love. The Man said, “Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you.”

 

Love,

Yoko

Studio One

1 W, 72nd Street

New York City 10023

    

Footnote: 19th October 2007

 

Dear Friends

This was my statement in the 80's.

I am amazed and saddened that the situation is incredibly similar now.

But we overcame in the 80's.

We can overcome again.

We are larger in numbers now.

 

So, I'll say it again.

Remember: We Are Family.

Think PEACE, Act PEACE and Spread PEACE.

Together, we will shift the axis of the world to PEACE.

I love you!

yoko

 

Description: Surrender of German troops at Cherbourg-Octeville in Normandy.

 

Date: 26th June 1944

 

Our Catalogue Reference: ADM 202/598

 

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A two-week firearms surrender has been hailed a success after 243 guns were handed in.

 

Between 13th and 26th November, people were given the opportunity to surrender their guns anonymously at police stations across Greater Manchester.

 

Among the haul of pistols, revolvers, shotguns and handguns handed in was a 1973 Colt Revolver, Black P.Beretta, Gardone Vt 1936-Xiv and 9MM Walther P38.

 

A large quantity of ammunition was also surrendered.

 

More guns were handed in during this surrender than the previous two carried out in 2016 (221) and 2014 (225).

 

The firearms surrender was supported by the father and friends of Halton McCollin who tragically lost his life in 2008 when he was shot in the back of the head in Stretford.

 

Halton’s loved ones should have been celebrating his 30th birthday but instead joined Greater Manchester Police in appealing for people to give up the gun in the hope it’ll stop any other family going through the same pain.

 

Detective Chief Superintendent Mary Doyle said: “The surrender has been a great success and has seen 243 weapons taken off the streets, which is 243 fewer weapons that can cause harm and devastation within our communities.

 

“Although our surrender has finished, our fight against gun crime is far from over and we continue to focus our activity against those that use guns in their criminal activities.

 

“If you know somebody who has a gun, or is involved in firearms criminality, please tell us about it before another family is torn apart by a bullet.”

 

To report gun crime, contact Greater Manchester Police on 101 or 999 if a crime is in progress. Alternatively call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

 

Use the hashtag #GiveUpTheGun on social media to join in the conversation.

 

To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit

www.gmp.police.uk

 

You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.

 

Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.

 

You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

 

Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.

    

I named this piece Surrender because thats exactly what I had to do to create her. I had a totally different idea of who she was supposed to be . Sometimes I feel like my art doesn't come from me but rather through me, in the end they always become who they were meant to be!

On 2 September 1945 the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, the written agreement that formalized the surrender of the Empire of Japan, marking the end of World War II was signed. It was signed by representatives from the Empire of Japan, the United States of America, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Provisional Government of the French Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the Dominion of New Zealand. The signing took place on the deck of USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945.

 

Pictured here is Leonard Monk Isitt, signing the instrument of surrender. Isitt was a New Zealand military aviator and senior air force commander. In 1943 he became the first New Zealander to serve as the Chief of Air Staff of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, a post he held until 1946. After the war he worked as chairman of Tasman Empire Airways.

 

Archives New Zealand Reference: ADQA 17263 AIR118 72/64 part 36

 

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The final stages of the removal of "Unconditional Surrender" at Tuna Harbor Park. (Photos courtesy Dale Frost/Port of San Diego).

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Title: Le Shima Surrender

Date: 1939-1945

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A two-week firearms surrender has been hailed a success after 243 guns were handed in.

 

Between 13th and 26th November, people were given the opportunity to surrender their guns anonymously at police stations across Greater Manchester.

 

Among the haul of pistols, revolvers, shotguns and handguns handed in was a 1973 Colt Revolver, Black P.Beretta, Gardone Vt 1936-Xiv and 9MM Walther P38.

 

A large quantity of ammunition was also surrendered.

 

More guns were handed in during this surrender than the previous two carried out in 2016 (221) and 2014 (225).

 

The firearms surrender was supported by the father and friends of Halton McCollin who tragically lost his life in 2008 when he was shot in the back of the head in Stretford.

 

Halton’s loved ones should have been celebrating his 30th birthday but instead joined Greater Manchester Police in appealing for people to give up the gun in the hope it’ll stop any other family going through the same pain.

 

Detective Chief Superintendent Mary Doyle said: “The surrender has been a great success and has seen 243 weapons taken off the streets, which is 243 fewer weapons that can cause harm and devastation within our communities.

 

“Although our surrender has finished, our fight against gun crime is far from over and we continue to focus our activity against those that use guns in their criminal activities.

 

“If you know somebody who has a gun, or is involved in firearms criminality, please tell us about it before another family is torn apart by a bullet.”

 

To report gun crime, contact Greater Manchester Police on 101 or 999 if a crime is in progress. Alternatively call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

 

Use the hashtag #GiveUpTheGun on social media to join in the conversation.

 

To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit

www.gmp.police.uk

 

You should call 101, the national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.

 

Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.

 

You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

 

Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.

    

Phoolan Devi. The Bandit Queen of India (1963-2001) is a fascinating woman who became a bandit and outlaw after an abusive childhood and suffering repeated abuse throughout her adult life. She is a fighter and a real Robin Hood character, brought up in a lower caste family, Phoolan Devi went on to rob the rich upper castes and give the money to the poor and needy.

 

After a family argument that resulted in her being knocked out with a brick, Phoolan Devi was classed as 'troublemaker' and married off to an older man who lived several hundred miles away from her family home. The man was in his 30's and Phoolan Devi was 11. She referred to her husband as a man of 'very bad character'. He repeatedly raped and mistreated her and when he was finished he returned her back to her family for having 'failed to fulfil her wifely duties'. A wife 'leaving' her husband was/is a serious taboo in India and Phoolan was marked as a social outcast.

 

In 1979, Phoolan was reported to the police by her cousin for stealing small items from his house, during her three days in prison she was beaten and raped by the authorities. It was around this time that she started to develop a deep hatred for men who abused and denigrated women. When released from prison she was shunned even more from society.

 

Later that year a gang of bandits (dacoits) abducted Phoolan. The gang leader wanted to rape her, but the second in command stopped him and eventually killed the leader for his attempts to rape Phoolan. He became gang leader himself and married Phoolan who joined the gang of bandits.

 

The gang ransacked the village where Phoolan's ex-husband and abuser lived, Phoolan took her revenge and stabbed him to death, dragging his body out onto the streets with a note around his neck warning other men who marry young girls.

 

Phoolan became trained in shooting and fighting. The gang she was part of ransacked high-caste villages, kidnapping upper caste landowners for ransom, the proceeds were shared out to the poor. After every crime Phoolan would visit a Durga temple and thank the goddess for her protection.

 

Some time later, two old gang members arrived- outraged by the murder of the old gang leader, they took revenge killing Phoolan's husband and subjecting her to numerous beatings, she was again raped by several men. After three weeks of abuse she managed to escape.

 

17 months after her escape Phoolan returned to take her revenge. On 14th February 1981 Phoolan and her gang marched into town dressed as police officers. It is said that the two men who had raped Phoolan and murdered her husband were lined up along with all the upper caste villagers and shot. 22 people were killed.

 

A massive police manhunt failed to locate Phoolan Devi. She was glorified in the Indian media and called The Bandit Queen. Dolls of Phoolan Devi dressed as the Hindu goddess Durga were sold in market towns in Uttar Pradesh.

 

Two years after the massacre police had still not captured Phoolan Devi. She, herself, was in poor health and most of her gang were dead. In February 1983 she agreed to surrender to the authorities with a list of conditions. She spent 11 years in jail whilst waiting for a trail date. She was released on parole in 1994; the government of Uttar Pradesh withdrew all charges against her.

 

​Phoolan Devi worked in Indian politics until her murder in 2001, the gang members responsible have still not been tried and charged for the crime.

 

phoolan devi

 

revolutionary women

 

I really like this picture. I don't know what it is, but I love it! (SOOC)

 

Comment Please!!

 

P.S. I put the new improved crop version in the comments. Go see!

 

Tilting, Fogo Island

Series of 3 sculptures inspired by veiled marble statues by 18th century artists such as Giuseppe Sanmartino. These mixed media sculptures are being displayed in the Hitogata Ten art exhibition at Marunouchi, Tokyo 12th to 18th of October 2022.

 

Melancholy - veiled bust, 2022.

 

Sorrow - veiled figure form curled up on a pedestal, 2022.

 

Surrender - Standing figure with windswept garments, 2022.

 

There is a waiting list for the exhibition artworks that might be available for sale after the exhibition. Email me with "waiting list" as topic to get a chance to buy them after 19th.

 

The art gallery just posted photos from the Hitogata Ten exhibition where my artworks are being displayed at the moment!

See the awesome work of all the artists :

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3KM up a logging road, one of the last things I'd expect to see.

Play-offs field hockey OZ-Rotterdam 2013

Our heroes have been cornered! Is there any hope left?

Surrender Filed at Yorktown, VA

After a great show in the public fountain he finally surrendered to the water

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