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AFGHAN DIALOGS - related work on Afghanistan

news paintings - the Bush years

news paintings - the Obama years

 

Drones, 2015
ball pen drawings

 

Drones are small, remote areal vehicles that are are more and more used and available to anyone. They are extended eyes and can also be used
to carry things. Most prominently , the first were develped and perfeted for military purposes. As such they are floating remote computerez eyes and
bombs. Thus, they are a sinsister reality constantly swirling above the heads of all people in contested conflict zones and can often be heard. They are
mostly used in Afghanistan, Pakistan , the Middle East and in Yemen and other places around the world. The politics of drones has revoulutionized
war fare and extended the digitalization of our lives that makes makes traditoinal distances, visibility and gravitational obstacles collapse.

For this serise, I have chose a screen shut of a google image search of "drones" to be drawn by ball pen. This style was also used by Alighiero Boetti for
his "airplane" drawings he made throughout the 1980s when his place of preference, Afghanistan was a war zone. Boetti's work was fundamentally shaped
by Afghanistan and Afghan workers who embroidered his conceputal word pieces. With the beginning of the Afghan-US invesion I have also paid attention
to his work as an artist and generated several works including "AFGHAN DIALOGS - embroideries made in Afghanistan with TV emblems and media
references from the USA at war - as well asWAR ON TERROR drawings, made with ball pen featuring the Bush terriminology of the last last decade

Given the constant use of target kililngs with drones - a mainstay in Afghanistan - it is for me only logical to now revisit this technic and make this series of
drones. This reference to Beotti and Afghanistan is important for me and not only justifies the use of this technic, pays homage to Beotti"s work - though
already quite famous - but also sets the beholder back to not only and art historical moment but also to the poltical complexities of that area. - shiould it
hopefully be once forgotten and resolved. Even though UAV (unmanned areal vehicles) have become only recently fully operational and funcitoning, they
are here to stay and play also more and more a role in civic life as well as in our minds in an age of total trasnparency and control enabled by big data, and
the interlinking of all technologies.

 

see also - some references from the NY Times

Drone Strikes Reveal Uncomfortable Truth: U.S. Is Often Unsure About Who Will Die

Airmail via Drones Is Vexing for Prisons

 

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Drone , 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches
http://www.kurzweilai.net/images/Raven_drone-512x394.jpg

 

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Drone , 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches
http://jurist.org/images/wiki/14/06/Drone.jpg

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches
http://www.worldtribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Reaper.jpg

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches
(source: http://rack.0.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDEzLzEwLzIzLzM1L0FSRHJvbmUyLjAuNjA0MjUuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJOTUweDUzNCMKZQlqcGc/ea9577cc/b0d/AR-Drone-2.0.jpg)

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches
(source:https://dronewarsuk.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/predator-firing-missile4.jpg )

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches
http://jurist.org/images/wiki/14/06/Drone.jpg

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches
http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/i/newscms/2014_19/330831/140417-drone-privacy-1455_8429d9ee2ba39bdee431ab2b73279942.jpg

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, Global Hawk, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, High Value Target, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, Drone, Extra Justicial Killings, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

 

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Drone, Phantom Eye, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, Predator, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

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Drone, Unmanned combat air vehicle, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

 

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Drone, Reaper, 2015
ball pent on paper, 11 x 14 inches

 

 

 

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Drone, 2015
ball pent on paper, 36 x 66 inches

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-  this one below is not yet done

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reference

 

 

eference pieces: war on terror

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