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Collateral Damage

December 2001
9” x 13”
Acrylic and twisted card on board.

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It wasn’t until halfway through the Gulf War that I realised ‘collateral damage’ could include human (Iraqi) casualties. The term suggests damaged buildings, bricks and mortar, and is used as a way to sanitise and hide the human cost of war. It is impossible to imagine British or American casualties described in this way.