Offensive, as opposed to the temporary desecration of cemeteries? I'd
be a part of the huge outcry--no matter why they fought, their
loved-ones deserve their grief to be respected.
On the other hand, I could see a mock cemetery for dead Iraqis
planted in front of the White House. It would be very large, probably
block traffic.
Mark
At 04:28 PM 7/29/2007, you wrote:
> > I always found this slogan provocative:
> >
> > http://catandgirl.com/store/fca.php
> On a gut response, I find this offensive. Tho I suspect, the American
>military - in some quarters, at least - implicitly slogans, "Future Corpses
>of x, y and z countries" as part of their Manual of Operations. It's all
>nonsensical, and leads to more and more indiscriminate killing of innocents
>et al.
>
>Stephen V
>http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>
> >
> > On 7/29/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> Re Hiroshima:
> >>
> >> Yesterday I was thinking of a provocative act. To make white
> cloth envelopes
> >> with stencils of pictures and names of the Iraqi civilian dead.
> These would
> >> be temporarily, and periodically placed over the grave stones of
> soldiers in
> >> American, Australian and United States' military cemeteries.
> >>
> >> There would be huge, righteous outcry/outrage from certain, predicatable
> >> public sectors. But the act would level the dead and/or 'living'
> fields. In
> >> fact, I would call it an homage to the "living dead."
> >>
> >> It might also speaking to the living, albeit amputated outrage that I
> >> suspect many of us feel about this war, as well as a few other disastrous
> >> incursions in the 20th and 21st century.
> >>
> >> Stephen Vincent
> >> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> This reminds me of visiting Leicester some 20 or more years
> ago, and finding
> >>> some of the paths stencilled with human figures -- men, women, children,
> >>> lying as though surrounded by the chalked outlines indicating murder
> >>> victims. It was Hiroshima Day. And I could not bring myself to
> step on them.
> >>>
> >>> joanna
> >>>
> >>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>> From: "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >>> Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 7:42 AM
> >>> Subject: Re: New de blog
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> Thanks, Peter. Stenciled sidewalk art is just gaining a toe
> hold(!) in San
> >>>> Francisco. Apparently it is all over Europe now. A German artist friend
> >>>> told
> >>>> me that Barcelona is filled with it to the point of way too much. Ironic
> >>>> how
> >>>> things are born, get a great peak, and then get destroyed by saturation
> >>>> and
> >>>> mediocre stuff - like subway cars in New York that got
> suffocatingly full
> >>>> of graffiti in the 80's. That help bring on the likes of Mayor Giuliani
> >>>> with
> >>>> heavy hitter cops, jail terms, etc.
> >>>>
> >>>> Oh, well. Poetry on the page or in the air forever!!
> >>>>
> >>>> Stephen V
> >>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> Great post Stephen!
> >>>>> Eros Meets Stencil Art - Dolores
> >>>>> Park<http://stephenvincent.net/blog/?p=556>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> - Peter Ciccariello
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 7/28/07, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Eros Meets Stencil Art - Dolores Park
> >>>>>> ... the way the erotic appearing dirt stain on a sidewalk
> >>>>>> unintentionally
> >>>>>> both augments and betrays the voice of a forlorn speaker. The way the
> >>>>>> red
> >>>>>> stencil ink - variously awash about the concrete - speaks to
> an enduring
> >>>>>> passion. A woman, I think. An artist who came west with her lover,
> >>>>>> either
> >>>>>> left him, or was betrayed, then set to stenciling the romance...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> "Green, green, I want you..." Haptic & Commentary
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Cantor Museum, Stanford University - Haptic
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 733 Guerrero - Haptic
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Joanne Kyger at City Lights - A Haptic with brief commentary.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> As always, comments appreciated.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Stephen V
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> >
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