Dandy Lepman Clough, Luxembourgian (1908 - 1999) // Pink Flowers in a Porcelain Pot, 1943 // Construction paper, scissors, ignorance || In 1943, at the height of World War II, with thousands of people dying every day of warfare, starvation, and disease, Dandy Lepman Clough chose to paint a porcelain pot with flowers. It was a time of wanton human cruelty, a showcase of the most inhumane and vile actions of which we as a species are capable, played out on the world stage for all to witness the suffering; Lepman Clough decided to add some pink to make the flowers pop. Families were separated, towns abandoned, populations eradicated, children buried by their mothers, people killed for their beliefs, for their ethnicities, for the way they looked, the way they talked; Clough thought something was missing, so he added flowers to the border. People fought for their freedom, heroes were made in battle, the world said “No” and united, arm in arm, brother with brother, to defeat the greatest evil we had ever seen. Clough thought his painting was pretty good.