9/11 Afghan War Rug

protest art or tourist souvenir, i don't know. the earliest war rugs were made in central asia by women in villages and refugee camps in the aftermath of the 1976 saur revolution. today, these works tend to 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 over time,, symbols change scale and language morphs:"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.