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Monday, May 03, 2004  

 
This was just too intriguing to pass up. It's a mosaic made of pictures of casualties (US and Coalition) from Iraq.


"War President" by American Leftist

As the author says:
I'd also like to point out that 'War President' is an image. It is not a textual statement or rhetorical argument. An image is like an empty room and any message that one reads in that room necessarily came in the baggage one carried when one walked in the door. If I made a mosaic of George Washington composed of images of the American dead from the revolution, would viewers likely take that image as an indictment of Washington? I submit that they would not. It would be viewed as a monument to the dead and a celebration of a great leader, a somewhat maudlin monument maybe but surely not offensive. The fact that 'War President' is not viewed such a manner is not due to any intrinsic property of 'War President' but lies somewhere else.

Full explanatory note here.

Higher resolution images available here and here. Source images from CNN.

 
posted by WL | 5/03/2004 03:21:00 PM
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