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As reviewed in the Boston Globe: Feb. 13, 2008
Art as it should be
Pablo Picasso said "painting is just another way to keep a diary," but Shea Justice's
panels entitled "War What have we learned?" goes well beyond a journal to become
a political smackdown. Justice started the panels on the day the war in Iraq began;
he'll finish the day the war ends. Justice's eight, 75-foot scrolls are filled with images
and musings that make the panels read like the love child of an angry blog and a
perpetual, uncensored political cartoon. A walk among the panels is a refresher
course in American history during the war from compassionate musings on the fate
of Iraqi women to a section chronicling the Orwellian aspects of our society. The
panels range from the hard-to-answer (a portrait of Saddam Hussein with
commentary that asks whether Jesus would have condoned the execution) to a
depiction of the inane (a reminder that during a time of war, the country was riveted
by the fate of "Joe Millionaire.") This piece truly falls in the
"you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it" category.
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