Death and the boy

Depicts a young orphan boy standing beside a skeleton and in front of a pile of skulls. Gittoes wrote of this work; 'This killing fields monument is one of those erected by the victorious Vietnamese, as both a way of justifying their invasion and a propoganda reminder of the evil of the Pol Pot era. Unlike the impressive concrete, stone and glass structure on the outskirts on Phnom Penh this one is very humble and in bad repair. The rows of skulls are behind wooden lattice- not glass- and there is full human skeleton wired to the lattice in front of the shelves-bones are stacked beneath. The young boy of my drawing immediately met me as I approached and offered to be my guide...he is an orphan and his home is with the dead'.