Re: [-empyre-] Abu Ghraib and the image

[Bee Flowers <bee@beeflowers.com>]

They struck me as art. In fact, my first thought was that reality had 
overtaken art, that art had dropped the ball. Now, of course if art is 
that which is presented as art, then those images fail as such, which is 
too bad, so for myself I quickly invoked the idea of art emerging in the 
viewer's mind. At some level it doesn't doesn't matter anyway, really, 
what something was intended as; as long as it 'works' in the way art 
does. Anyway, I preferred the one with Lynddie and the leash. It made me 
think of Kristeva, of Horror and the Female, and of a special type of 
soldier, designed to inflict maximum damage in this particular theater 
of war. So I set about making a collage 
http://beeflowers.com/Liberation/pages/02B.htm

Bee
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