Tourist Photographs from Iraq

spring to fall '06

oil on panel

The Tourist Photographs from Iraq are a series of 4'x4' oil self-portraits which attempt to interpret the posture assumed as a soldier/tourist in the surreal space of Iraq.

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This is how I wanted to see myself...
This is what I thought we would do in Iraq
That's what I always thought we were about...
Barefoot, little kids...
I remember that one there

I remember standing there
Dust covered, dust in my teeth,
the smell of heat
That Humvee was fucked
Crippled