ArtClothText

Dead Soldier Project, 2002- infinity
newspaper, acrylic sealant, ink, thread on paper
dimensions variable

I started the Dead Soldier Project when the number of US soldiers killed in Afghanistan (and/or Iraq; it’s been so long I can’t even remember) reached 1,000. The Times printed a tiny picture of each dead (American) soldier, along with their name, age and hometown. These thousand faces, with just the briefest identifying information called out to be made into something beyond a statistic, so I saved them and started to make a quilt out of them. When the number reached 2,000, then 3,000 and 4,000, I realized it would never end. I couldn’t go on processing these deaths. I had to leave the project unfinished, which seems apt.

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