JAMES WALSH is moved by an exhibition of graphic art that relates horrors that would be much less immediate in other media
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SoulsINQUEST
Platform, Glasgow
THE state isn’t generally shy about building memorials to the glorious dead.
In every town in the land we can find plaques, stone crosses signifying the vast loss of life in war through the years, and even in older workplaces you can still find some built to remember the waste of humanity if you look hard enough and they’ve been spared the wrecking ball.
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