This work represents Bartoli’s reaction to War: that ultimately young men sent into battle are gone and what remains to fight are their skulls. It is "in essence" Bartoli's Guernica. The dog was inspired by an article in Newsweek that pictured an adolescent boy “drafted” into a South American war, killed almost immediately, and left to die on the sidewalk, with a dog eating his anklebone. The crying baby represents the countries that don’t celebrate the birth of a child but grieve it's coming into a world with so much pain and sadness.