The Iraq Rug

A rug shaped after the map of Iraq features soldiers advancing from many direction into Bagdad. Through newspapers and television, the image of Iraq is continuously depicted with graphics similar to board games and action figures, giving it a game-like dimension, which somehow shifts the character of the war. The rug, with cute little felt soldiers walking on a soft and warm surface, denounces this confusion, and the way in which the tragic reality of war is somehow diluted by using these images.

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Comments (3) to “The Iraq Rug”

  1. I find this highly offensive! Have people become completely numb to the horrors of war?

  2. I was hoping for a flying carpet…As political art the scale is wrong… As a wall hanging the figures are wrong… Its just 3/4 clever…

  3. How about this?