In 1863, the first edition of The Disasters of War was published, a series of 80 engravings by Francisco Goya, the great Spanish artist who died nearly forty years earlier. These works had never been seen before, except within Goya’s circle, likely because they were too shocking, their subject matter speaking to the unspeakable that humans instigate – and endure – in wartime. Since then the series has gained worldwide renown as a singular artistic achievement but also a pioneer work of war journalism. In The Disasters of Peace, Gaudet took inspiration from Goya to produce a collection of 80 short stories. Each story, none longer than 300 words, is a meditation on the nature of personal and cultural accountability in our compulsively violent, inter-dependent world.  The collection was presented as an installation of prints featuring Gaudet’s text and Goya’s images at Alison Smith Gallery (Toronto) in 2011, with the sponsorship of the International Festival of Authors in Toronto. In 2012 the installation was translated into Chinese and exhibited at a museum in Hangzhou, China.