'Dulce et decorum est'

This is a sample I did for a project based on 'Decay', I was inspired my world war one letters, poetry and pictures. I looked at Wilfred Owen's poem 'Dulce et decorum est' and thought it had some really powerful metaphors I could some how translate into my own art work. I decided to transfer the poem on to canvas using emulsion paint and then stained the material with paint and ink which I let drip down the fabric and then overlayed it with black net.I will put the poem below incase anyone can't read it from the picture:Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backsAnd towards our distant rest began to trudge.Men marched asleep. Many had lost their bootsBut limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots4Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime. . .Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.If in some smothering dreams you too could paceBehind the wagon that we flung him in,And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;If you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cudOf vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,My friend, you would not tell with such high zestTo children ardent for some desperate glory,The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum estPro patria mori.The words 'Dulce et decorum est' are latin and mean 'it is sweet and right to die for your country'.