"Over There"

“Over There”

Joseph Wight

Brass Bell, Solenoid

It is easy to forget about the war that we’ve been in for the last 7 years. We

have countless solutions for modern living to make every aspect of our lives more

tolerable. It is these constant distractions from the world outside of our daily lives

that provide us with the privilege to work our jobs, learn in our schools, take time

with our friends and families, and eat our meals in the peace that we have denied

our enemies. What has been removed from our field of vision is how our freedom to

enjoy our lives comes at the expense of innocence under the auspices of democracy.

The Opinion Research Business, an independent British polling agency, found

that there were roughly 1,033,000 casualties that took place between the invasion of

Iraq in March 2003 and the date of their poll in August 19th, 2007. If this number

were stretched to fill the last 7 years since the invasion with a regular interval

between deaths, then there would be one death every three and a half minutes. The

bell above rings once for every person that has lost their life as a result of this

conflict.

check out my music
I made it in my beat research class.

From Drop Box

This is the second bread man that Corinna and I have created. We're looking into other forms of armature. Getting the forms to sit in a believe posture is the most difficult aspect of this project.

Bread Man

I decided to make a man out of bread from the garbage. The clothes came from a thrift store. The idea is that everything has been made so disposable and expendable that everything is on it's way to the landfill.

Including us.

Once I figure out a quick and easy way to put them together, I plan on making several of these and setting them up wherever space permits. I'd like to film animals picking at them and people's interactions.