Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: Gettysburg National Military Park -possibly one of the most depressing places on earth
I don't know what- I'd thought it would be- it took a second to dawn on me--it's a giant mass grave.
Once that realization hit me-though there are other things to see in town, besides the battlefield / mass grave, I couldn't leave quick enough.
Sometimes/most times people want to know- what inspired a painting or what I'm trying to say with it. A lot of the time- my thinking is a stew of different ideas that probably wouldn't mean anything to anyone but me. In this case, though, it's pretty cut and dry. The battlefield at Gettysburg: A massacre dressed up, looking like a well manicured lawn hides its thousands of dead like the sea hides a shipwreck. If i were in charges of these sorts of things, I'd've had 'em salt the land- so it'd remain barren and dead, the memory sown into our souls, as long as the dead in the ground circle the sun.