In the Dada magazine I find the images to be interesting. One of the images in particular is of a bolt of some kind. I was trying to figure out what type of bolt and as wrong as I probably am because the appearance is not quite the same, but is similar, it reminds me of a charging bolt in a weapon. The words that accompany this work of art is "d'une jeune fille americaine, dans le etat de nudite", this translates to "the young American girl in the state of nudity". The artist is comparing this image to a nude girl. Comparing this image to the war it's saying that the men have possibly lost their humanity and have become more machine or robot-like and their idea of a women is another machine. I think of a charging bolt because in order for their weapon to function properly it has to be clean and almost perfect, by describing the bolt as a nude woman it is an image of beauty- in the mechanical sense she must be perfect and taken care of. Men from the war have forgotten the true beauty of what is around them and is comparing it to the only thing they know-war. They have lost their true selves and their art becomes the war itself, as depressing as that is. How do they return to the realities of home, but to compare them back to the war? They lived so long in the art of mechanics, doing the same thing over and over day in and day out, the mechanics become the art and they may just not know how to come back from it. This idea could easily resemble any soldier with "shell shock" they are remembering their mechanical ways and their weapons or tools of the war are their women, their art. The last thing I want to mention is the fact that the tool itself says "for-ever" on it. Forever will the fighting men be reminded of the war, they cannot forget. How do they return to the realities of the world after the war? Is it even possible?