Nissour
Square, Baghdad, oil on mylar, 7" X 9" 2008
These paintings
are small oil paintings on mylar that lay flush on the floor. They
are based on satellite images whose subjects include bombing sites,
trampled shrines, a prison complex, and other places that have figured
large in the Western media’s news coverage of events in Iraq.
I began to paint them in 2004 as an ongoing reaction to events of
the war from the perspective of an individual at a distance, dependent
upon elaborate systems of communication for information. These images,
with their delicately woven patterns of geography, architecture,
weather and infrastructure, the background for the current media,
political and military campaigns, are here seen at an abstracted
and comfortable distance. They have something to do with a feeling
of disconnection, both with daily events on the ground and the political
and communication systems under whose auspices these events have
unfolded.
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