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SITES OF TRAUMA, 2002
Oil
on wood
3.5" x 5"
Painted from film stills, the Sites of Trauma series
was created in response to viewing the documentary
footage of the military's exercise, Operation Doorstop.
This operation was conducted by the Department of
Civil Defense during the 1950's and consists of the
construction and simulation of domestic environments.
These sites were created solely for the purpose to
drop upon them a nuclear bomb. The exercise was conducted
to ascertain the outcome of such domestic environments
if attacked by a nuclear bomb.
Included
in this series are stills which focus on mannequins
being set up in a bedroom, far depth of field shots
of the houses, and the aftermath of the bomb. The
pathology created by the simultaneous destruction
of a domestic environment and the larger landscape
is what is of particular interest to me.
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