‘There is a bullet in my brain’: the searing art of Hollywood nun Sister Mary Corita

One of her more powerful examples is Stop the Bombing, a 1967 print emblazoned in red, blue and white (perhaps a nod to the US flag), protesting against the brutalities and violence of the Vietnam war. In the handwriting around it is a moving statement: “There is a bullet in my brain, behind my eyes, so that all I see is pain, I am in Vietnam …” It is a message that speaks presciently today. But only if we look closer do we understand the realities of these larger slogans – a lesson to look further than what is first presented to us.