A filmmaker friend of mine is doing a piece on the war memorial across from the Lafayette BART station and I went with her wanting to shoot some stills of the crosses on the hillside. While we were there - in the superbright midday sun - I came across a dead buck that some motorist must have run over just hours earlier. The sad reality of the slain animal contrasted weirdly with the gorgeousness of the bright sunshine. I had a hard time taking the shots of the bloodied animal. Death became very real that moment and also the deaths of the many soldiers that were memorialized just across the street. After shooting the images of the crosses with all the American flags blowing in the wind I started to think about doing a collage on the senselessness of war in general. There are so many casualties: killed, wounded and maimed soldiers on both sides, their families, the civilians.....so much pain and loss. I cannot imagine what it would be like to be in your early twenties and to return from Iraq with one or more of your bodyparts missing - your life that you have not yet lived at all completely and irrevocably altered. IMAGINE PEACE.......
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You know the peice was effective because it stirred a variety of emotions in many people in the crit. I am still not entirely sure about the hardness of the rectangles but the combination of images works well for your theme.
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