Given Canandaigua’s proximity to Ithaca (and Rochester and Syracuse for that matter) I would expect no less in ‘art’. Sigh, I can just see artists in the Southern Tier scrambling to get their protest art ready for summer display at art shows. (Must go paint something patriotic now...)
The explaination seems to be pro-American / anti-terror:
“it never occurred to me to be offended by my friend’s expression of the fact that America (its ideals) IS a target under attack with REAL bullets and REAL consequences by an enemy which uses cowardly and senseless terror as their primary instrument against innocent people with the object to tear asunder our values of liberty and justice for all, which are ideals that are all too fragile at this point in time, both at home and abroad.”
Is that just his interpretation of the art OR did his friend, the artist, tell him this was her intent?