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Although most of us have never experienced war, we are surrounded by its imagery. This project is an exploration of the way that imagery and information from movies, videogames, the newspaper, and the Internet come together to form our perception of what war is. Explosions are war’s most universal and most spectacular signifiers. We are never falling short of this imagery. I have made use of these magnetizing images to show not only how the lines between fiction and non-fiction blur, but also to show how a mediated experience can become indecipherable from a real experience.
1 comments:
Hi Krista,
I'm sorry that I didn't make it to the opening. These newer works seem different. Though it might just be the result of viewing them on the web, the large rectangles of color make it hard to look at the overall image. So in a way, I want to look, but, but am frustrated in that process by the way that you've pieced things together. Or, these could be about the breaking down of media images as a way to document and reveal the truth of war. As in, no medium of representation is a true substitute for the experience of being there. So if we are actually going to learn about and from war, then it behooves us to listen to the people that have been there: i.e. veterans.
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