Yellow-eyed wolves with savage teeth are the rapists. Their fierce expressions are fixed in the horrific act of ultimate domination while a woman's screams go unheard. This is cruelty at its worst without the releast of death for those who suffer the punishment of rape. The victims and their children, subtly suggested in small yellow lassoes are in keeping with this exposure of war's gross underbelly.

Adeparture into a hell of physical and emotional hopelessness, "RAPE" speaks to Huong's personal experience: "It's the real story of how I grew up. I was born with the war in Vietnam. Women were the backbone of the family. They came home with the babies of the enemy and society didn't accept them. When they had no jobs, they had to sell themselves to feed their babies. I have so much admiration for women. They're always giving. But in war how many women have been raped?"

Text By, Sandi Wicina, Curator of Arts
©2004. Art, War, and Peace Museum.