Sometimes We Feel Like Going Home 12" x 24", oil on wood panel, 2014 Sometimes I Feel Like Going Home 20" x 16", oil on canvas, 2014 The average age of the Canadian soldier in World War One was 26 years. Now imagine leaving your home in the city or country, crossing the Atlantic, and being thrust into a conflict you can't fully understand. Before 1917 when Canada enforced conscription, everyone went (more or less*) willingly, but nobody any any concept of the scale this war would eventually reach in violence, horror, duration, casualties, boredom, technical challenges, and on and on and on. Apart from research of firsthand accounts, my inspiration while painting these two came from " Home " by Roger Waters (the single soldier painting borrows it's title from a line in that song) and " The Day After Tomorrow " by Tom Waits . Look them up. In the Calamity section of my WWI painting project , these are the last two (or first ...
Milê Murtanovski's artwork...mostly paintings...and the occasional scale model.