Monday, September 7, 2009

Shoot an Iraqi


Hey class,
This is a photograph of an art instillation done by a man named Wafaa Bilal. Enclosed in a bullet-proof plexi-glass room, Bilal spent a month eating, sleeping, blogging, and being shot at by online gamers with a robotic paintball gun. Bilal's "message" is that war is messy and seeps into every aspect of life, disrupting normalcy and highlighting flaws. I found his instillation unique because he allowed thousands of participants to paint him and his room, not with brushes, but with paint-filled bullets.

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