Cuts
War Cuts, 2002
Cut New York Times Iraq War section

War Cuts was created with the pages of the New York Times coverage of the Iraq War in the summer of 2002.  All the images of soldiers represented in the photographs in the coverage of the war were cut out of the newspapers.  In the installation, the American military is presented as negative shapes and are juxtaposed against the other narratives on the opposite side of the paper.  A group of soldiers are marching on top of the photograph of a crying young girl who had just lost her family in the bombing.  This simple gesture of removal creates a powerful and poetic narrative about the Iraq War and war in general.