Salij, H Jathar
April 5, 2003   H Jathar Salij

Greenville, NC

Title: Dancing with the Stars and Stripes
After the TV program, Dancing with the Stars.  The dancers are based on a postage stamp set named Let’s Dance.
Media: oil and acrylic on canvas

Life goes on over the dead bodies of those killed in the President’s war.  The larger red figures symbolize the mothers of the victims.

Bio: Most of my work is a visual expression of events or ideas.  I have had solo and group exhibitions in the US and Japan.  Some of my paintings are in private collections in the US, Canada, Japan, and Europe.  The Greenville (NC) Museum of Art owns one of my larger paintings: City of Greed.

May 29, 2003   H Jathar Salij

Greenville, NC

Title: Public Relations
Media: acrylic on canvas

In Public Relations, the mask-like face with the tongue hanging out of the tambourine-playing figure may be an indication that not everything is as it seems in what society accepts as entertaining.