paintings drawings mixed media photography
paintings drawings mixed media photography
paintings drawings mixed media photography
paintings drawings mixed media photography
paintings drawings mixed media photography
paintings drawings mixed media photography
paintings drawings mixed media photography
paintings drawings mixed media photography
paintings drawings mixed media photography
Description of work
The clippings I collected in the spring of 2001 were fabricated into a hundred and nineteen small works of varying sizes, over the winter months of 2001-02. They are newspaper articles copied onto four different colours of paper; blue, green, yellow, ocker. These are glued to particleboard and affixed to pressboard, razed slightly with a spacer. The eight-cm. borders are painted in five different colours; pink, yellow, black, gold, and red.
Another of the peaces is comprised of a hundred and eleven blocks made from the paper from which the articles were taken. * The first batch of blocks were processed in the spring of 2001 the remainder in the spring of 2002. There appearance varies from dark grey to a ocker grey depending on the ink content, bacteria and how long the pulp was left to soak.
This process was documented using drawings produced in 1990 to make eight blocks these are of a more symmetrical shape and have a pleasant green colour.
The last of the peaces completed, are six collages framed with wood frames stained red and varnished. Each contains a group of photos documenting the paper processing; soaking pulping pressing and as well as a portion of front pages of newspapers pertaining to the Bamiyan Buddhas.
* Clippings are from nine newspapers National Post, Globe and mail, Calgary herald, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, Sunday Times, Times of India, Dawn and the Singapore straits times. Paper for the blocks used papers from late February to early April, these papers were The Singapore Straits Times, Times of India, Sunday Times, New York Times, Los An
Summery of events covered in News clippings February to April 2001
The destruction of the Bemoan Buddha’s was ordered by the Mullah Mohammed Omar and had begun in early February.
A special edict was broadcast on Radio Kandahar on the 26th announcing that ...All Statues and non-Islamic Shrines located in different parts of the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan should be destroyed. “These statues were shrines of the infidels and these infidels continue to worship and respect these icons”. “Allah Almighty is the only real Shrine and all false shrines should be smashed.”
Reports varied on the progress of the destruction. A Talaban spokesman reported on February 10th that “they are completely gone.” One report on the 10th stated ...The Statues now are demolished Blown up on the weekend with a truckload of dynamite after a failed attempt with anti-aircraft and tank canon. “They placed dynamite charges inside holes they had drilled and blew them up. Talaban Spokesmen: Now it’s too late we have destroyed 80% of the statues. There is only a small amount left and we will destroy that soon...”work” has not yet been completed the statues have more or less been destroyed. On March 20th the Talaban slaughtered 100 cows to atone for the delays in destroying the statues.
March 27th foreigners were allowed to see the destroyed statues. After meeting with Islamic Scholars the Mullah Mohammed Omar agrees to protect remaining heritage monuments.
A special edict was broadcast on Radio Kandahar on the 26th announcing that ...All Statues and non-Islamic Shrines located in different parts of the Islamic Emirates of Afghanistan should be destroyed. “These statues were shrines of the infidels and these infidels continue to worship and respect these icons”. “Allah Almighty is the only real Shrine and all false shrines should be smashed.”
Reports varied on the progress of the destruction. A Talaban spokesman reported on February 10th that “they are completely gone.” One report on the 10th stated ...The Statues now are demolished Blown up on the weekend with a truckload of dynamite after a failed attempt with anti-aircraft and tank canon. “They placed dynamite charges inside holes they had drilled and blew them up. Talaban Spokesmen: Now it’s too late we have destroyed 80% of the statues. There is only a small amount left and we will destroy that soon...”work” has not yet been completed the statues have more or less been destroyed. On March 20th the Talaban slaughtered 100 cows to atone for the delays in destroying the statues.
March 27th foreigners were allowed to see the destroyed statues. After meeting with Islamic Scholars the Mullah Mohammed Omar agrees to protect remaining heritage monuments.
geles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Dawn.