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Soft Targets (2004) examines the relationship of the artmaking process and living with fear. Suddenly everything is a soft target for violent extremists. As a visual artist also looking for soft targets as images, a 3-eye flaneur feeling extra self-conscious about taking pictures in the city these days. In addition to ground-zero there are images from other locations in Manhattan and surrounding suburbs. Explosions heard around the world multiplied with the deaths of thousands more in Iraq. Imagine what it would be like if Hackensack or Paramus were under attack. Zen Buddhists call art painted cake, like sugar that evaporates in moisture. Art is not effective against death by terrorism or conventional war, but artmaking can be a defense against dying while still alive. |
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