Thursday, February 21, 2008

Art--> Voice for Tortured Detainees

Artist Daniel Heyman "Abu Ghraib Detainee Interview Project" -showing at DePaul Art Museum thru' May 4th
from here to here to here to here

" When asked, I'll sometimes say I'm writing about torture, but I've found that when I say the word torture, many go glassy-eyed, as if I had just dropped a stone into a deep, deep well. When asked, I'll sometimes say I'm writing about the way photographs are a type of dream, or I'll say that I'm writing a memoir of bewilderment, and leave it at that, but what I mean is the bewilderment of what it is to wake up in an America that has legalized torture. (p.3)" Nick Flynn, Esquire- Feb 08

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