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After feeling numbed by the media as to the reality of war, artist Kathleen Crocetti began a three year project to create a clay figure for every person who has died in Iraq since the war began. Four thousand pounds of clay and 150 volunteers later, she continues to expand the project as more lives are lost.

More information on the exhibition can be found here: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/04/18269021.ph...
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  • Amazing. You have a lot of patience!
    lmenstudio
  • Great!
    barak2z
  • Awesome stuff, keep it up!
    JonGod
  • I enjoy the idea very much, but I don't understand why the figures are so much different. Is your objective to say that human lives are the same no matter where they're from? If so, why are the figures the way they are? The American soldiers being bigger and more detailed.
    1995collective
  • wow, that's really amazing.
    moemoe
  • 1995collective,
    Great question that you could ask the artist about. I actually had nothing to do with the production of this art exhibit, I just thought it was fascinating, so I documented it.
    blueflame
  • This video is deep. I don't even want to say any more. I'm so upset that people are dying over their. You get the green light from be without a doubt. Great job. Great project.
    restored
  • Hello, in response to the very good questions posted by 1995collective: I wanted the work to be acceptable to a broad spectrum of people, including those who support the war and to family members of US service members killed in Iraq. This resulted in the highly modeled white figures with the flags. Most Iraqi’s are Muslims; in their culture they do not artistically represent the human form, so my figures are intentionally very abstract. I used darker color clay so that they would look like shadows; one of the reasons for that choice is that of the 45,000 dead Iraqi’s we have actual names for only 4,000 of them. They are literally anonymous dead.
    Thank you for your complimentary comments.
    fleen

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