I recently saw Emily Prince's 'American Servicemen and Women Who Have Died in Iraq and Afghanistan (But Not Including the Wounded, Nor the Iraqis, Nor the Afghans)'. The artists has drawn a small picture of every soldier killed in battle, and will continue to do so until the wars are over. This got me thinking...these days we have become so celebrity obsessed that the events going on in the lives of our famous 'friends' overshadow the fact that men and women are being killed in battle. It makes me sad that the fact Kerry Katona is pregnant with her 5th baby(or not...) receives as much, if not more attention than the fact there are people being killed in a war.
My work is a response to what Emily Prince is doing, and is a comment on the importance that celebrities have in our culture...even despite the other, far more important things going on.
Check out Emily Prince's work here: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/artpages/emily_prince_american_installation.htm
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