• PROJECTS
• - Collateral Damage
• - Untitled
• - Untitled
• - These Colors
• - The Fall of Saigon
• - Fifth Column

• INFO
• - CV

• Built with Indexhibit

Collateral Damage
Ink on paper
Pine frame
Each page 8.5” x 11”
approximately 80 framed pages

With “Collateral Damage,” I commemorate the lives of civilians killed in the war in Iraq. Each civilian life lost is represented with an “X.” The images included here show the first twenty pages of the ongoing series. Of a total of 655,000 civilians killed as estimated by the New York Times (October 10, 2006), the pages here tally 146,952. I estimate it will take about eighty pages to reach this number. Each piece is set in an unfinished pine frame. The exhibition at University of Massachusetts will include the twenty framed pages pictured here. This work is also performed in public as an intervention in an attempt to draw attention to the daily catastrophe and to encourage dialog. An intervention consists of me simply sitting at a table marking pages with X’s. A copy of the New York Times article is on hand.