Quixote in the Las Vegas Review-Journal
By SONYA PADGETT LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
When Michelle Wilmot first returned from Iraq, she numbed herself with a steady diet of Cap’n Crunch cereal and Arby’s. It wasn’t the healthy outlet that art now provides for the Army veteran. The 31-year-old has amassed a portfolio of dozens of paintings, drawings and mixed-media pieces since she turned to art to deal with the feelings and frustrations left over from her military career. But for a few weeks, before art became her salvation, the self-medication worked. The constant supply of fat and sugar kept her true feelings stuffed deep inside where she didn’t have to face the truth: that she had been forever altered by the things she did and saw during the war. And she had yet to be presented with the reality that her role as a female combat veteran would be challenged again and again by a society that is still not comfortable with the idea of women fighting its wars. Read More
When Michelle Wilmot first returned from Iraq, she numbed herself with a steady diet of Cap’n Crunch cereal and Arby’s. It wasn’t the healthy outlet that art now provides for the Army veteran. The 31-year-old has amassed a portfolio of dozens of paintings, drawings and mixed-media pieces since she turned to art to deal with the feelings and frustrations left over from her military career. But for a few weeks, before art became her salvation, the self-medication worked. The constant supply of fat and sugar kept her true feelings stuffed deep inside where she didn’t have to face the truth: that she had been forever altered by the things she did and saw during the war. And she had yet to be presented with the reality that her role as a female combat veteran would be challenged again and again by a society that is still not comfortable with the idea of women fighting its wars. Read More
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