Infanticide

This one I call "Infanticide" for reasons that I hope are quite clear. I pretty much thought of the slogan first and then made a collage to go along with the message. The words are, once again, done in whiteout. The background and children were taken from a book on Latin American indigenous culture. The bodies on the ground I found in a first aid book and the rest are from various magazines and childrens books. The military guy on the left was a challenge. I wasn't able to find a large enough picture of a soldier or even a camo outfit, so I cut out an image of a guy that was about the size I want and I found various pictures of people wearing camo and cut them up, mixed them up and glued them over his clothes to create a uniform. By the way, I don't know if you can tell, but the girl in the front is wearing a suicide bomber vest. Sweet! As for the canvas, when I started making this one, I was unable to find a sheet of paper big enough for this one, so I dug through my friend's recycling (I almost never collage in my own home.) and found a Cheerios box, which I cut up and used. Since then I have only used the cardboard containers of various food stuffs and other thick, flat, paper based surfaces for my collages.
Like the two critiques on religion, this one has a fairly clear message behind it. Most of my other collages do not have much of an actual message behind them. I often start making a collage with a particular message in mind, but as I progress the message gets more and more abstract and convoluted. However, I do often intentionally use loaded imagery, so whether or not there is an intended message behind the collage, people will try to find one. Whatever you think the collage means is what it means. Now that I have bestowed this secret upon you, don't let it prevent you from trying to interpret any of my collages.