9/11 Afghan War Rug

protest art or tourist souvenir, i don't know. the earliest war rugs were created on looms in central asia by women in villages and refugee camps following the 1976 saur revolution. today, these works often narrate the violence by flattening the space and machinery––helicopter gunships, occupation maps, AK-47s and tanks–that define this event and the 20 year conflict at large.

each rug one of one. through the accumulation of small shifts in each replication, symbols uncannily change scale and become decorative, and language morphs over time:"FLIGHT" > "FL I6T", "MISSILE" > "SRM SLE".the visual story changes through recursive displacement and subtle acts of re-authorship––food for thought for the western image-maker. own a moment in time.