Creativity After Combat Main MenuExhibitionEvents and ProgrammingWhat is the Escalette Collection of Art?Jessica Bocinskia602570e86f7a6936e40ab07e0fddca6eccf4e9b
How Can We Tell If They're Wounded or Just Menstruating?
1media/2020.1.20_thumb.jpg2020-02-05T18:50:41+00:00Jessica Bocinskia602570e86f7a6936e40ab07e0fddca6eccf4e9b11Kendall Helland, How Can We Tell If They're Wounded or Just Menstruating?, Intaglio, 2012. Purchased with funds from the Escalette Endowment.plain2020-02-05T18:50:41+00:00Jessica Bocinskia602570e86f7a6936e40ab07e0fddca6eccf4e9b
Artist Statement: This veteran was born in Wisconsin in 1959. She went into the Army in 1976, inspired by Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country” speech. Once in the Army, she trained as a medic. At night the women soldiers slept with weapons. She got shipped overseas to Germany, where she stayed in an old Nazi barracks. After her active duty ended, she joined the Army Reserves. Here she had traumatic experience of sexual harassment with a supervising sergeant. When her time with the reserves was over she moved to Phoenix to do polling and market research. She went back to school in 2002 and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 2006. The mix of positive and negative experiences while in the military are reflected in the devils and angels that surround the veteran.
