Andrew Cross
A Blunt Instrument… (#7), 2025
Digital inkjet print
Edition of 3
Edition of 3
100 x 125 cm
'A sequence of 14 images, originated on large-format negative, which feature the traces of tracked military vehicles on the soft ground of Salisbury Plain. Part of the British Army’s Salisbury...
"A sequence of 14 images, originated on large-format negative, which feature the traces of tracked military vehicles on the soft ground of Salisbury Plain. Part of the British Army’s Salisbury Plain Training area, this is land that the my father farmed during the 1960s when the area was leased from the army for agricultural production. It is where I spent an idyllic early childhood, and in these fields would often play at ‘soldiers’.
The title A Blunt Instrument … is a reference to political scientist John Mearshaimer’s observation on the use of military force for international relations."
