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Objects Flat Things Annual Fishbowl Grant About Contact Links Home Testimony To War, 2008 Testimony to War was a group exhibit at School of Visual Arts Gallery in New York. Excerpted from the catalog essay by curator Francis DiTomasso: ["Testimony to War"] attempts to provide a measure of that human content through the art of five Americans who have experienced the war. Its purpose is to put faces on those directly involved in the conflict and to make the reality of their daily existence more understandable in our own. We are frequently reminded that we are a nation at war. So should we not know what this war actually looks like? Buotte created his works upon returning home, in response to his war experiences. Rather than documenting the war, his work captures the war as it lives within him, shaping his consciousness and informing his creative output. His contributions to the exhibition ask viewers to conceptually engage with and to provoke reflection upon the conflict. The intent of this exhibition is not political. Rather, the works within are meant to stir awareness, to take aim at indifference and cause reflection on this great human drama of our time. To one extent or another it involves us all. Viewers will draw their own conclusions from the artist's testimony to war.