My Brother in Fallujah
| mixed
media fabric sculpture |
19" x 19" x 80"
| Daniel
Wend
This
sculpture is a statement about the atrocity of war, in this case,
the war in Iraq - a war started on a lie.
The continuing disasterous conflict has led to hundreds of thousands
of deaths, countless injuries, severe mental
disorders, and fractured families fleeing their homes in desperation.
The ruinous battle the US military conducted
to clear enemies from the city of Fallujah was prompted by the deaths
of American military contractors whose
tortured and burned bodies were strung up along a city bridge. They
were almost unrecognizable, looking like
blackened stick figures dangling in the hot desert wind.
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