Bridget Titone

Revisionist Sixties

I was gently admonished yesterday by a student for posting the term "old school" instead of OG on my blog. OG in today's parlance translates to "original gangster" and I try to avoid that term at all costs as a kid from a volatile neighborhood where young men flaunted big cars, pinky rings and large amounts of money snugly wrapped in rubber bands. As you can image being a designer, or artist, was frowned upon but I was from an artistic family whose grandmother made her own pizza and a truly gifted mother who wrote poems and painted on anything that was not glued down.

The peace rock is my mother Bridget Titone's artistic response to the latter stages of the never-ending Vietnam War. A war that I was visually treated to every night on TV throughout the sixties and early seventies. You see very little television war coverage in our OG era, Iraq, Afghanistan or otherwise but these brutal conflicts are still very much out there and not giving peace much of chance.