An installation by
Lorrie Anne Minicozzi
The Art of War and Peace
“Drain the blood from men's veins and put in water instead, then there will be no more war!”Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book 5, Chapter 14, 1806–07
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An installation by
Lorrie Anne Minicozzi
“Drain the blood from men's veins and put in water instead, then there will be no more war!”Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, Book 5, Chapter 14, 1806–07
A world painted on the currency that pays for it. Forty-four figures share one curved surface — conquerors beside peacemakers, saints beside dictators, symbols beside the faces they were used to justify. Turn it in any direction. Touch any face.
As the globe turns, these figures do not stand alone. They face one another across time. Alexander the Great and Napoleon Bonaparte mirror each other in ambition. Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. echo one another in restraint. Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant share a fragile victory that required both war and mercy. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin stand as reminders that defeating one form of violence does not erase another.
What emerges is not a conclusion, but a conversation. War and peace are not separate chapters. They are written on the same page, often by the same hands. This installation captures that truth, not as an answer, but as an invitation to reflect, to question, and to remember.
Every face on the globe, drawn by hand in graphite. Each opens the story Lorrie wrote for it.
As the globe turns, these figures do not stand alone. Four pairs are set deliberately opposite one another on the sphere — turn to one and you turn away from the other.
Above the torn rim, a multitude climbs out of the water. With them rise the images that taught the world what war and peace look like — five works that changed how conflict is seen.
Faith can inspire acts of great kindness and profound violence. It can divide or unite.
War and peace are not separate chapters. They are written on the same page, often by the same hands.
Draft for the artist’s review. All biographical texts are Lorrie’s own, reproduced as written. The sculpture shown here is a working reconstruction built from her photographs and drawings; it will be replaced by a 3D scan of the finished piece.