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Landscape Sections: Borders: Afghanistan and Pakistan
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Landscape Sections: Borders:
Pakistan / Afghanistan (Tora Bora)
2008Pakistan border with Afghanistan is now always central to the United States politics and its policies. Especially central to most US citizens is the valley(s) of Tora Bora where Bin Laden was believed to escape death or capture. It has become an icon or symbol within people’s psyche.
This is a new and developing series of landscape sections miniaturized representing the borders/crossing between countries in varying degrees of conflicts with its neighbor. In this series each of these borders is symbolic of important global issues in the world today and each is always in the media placing them in the mind of the world’s public.
These borders have unintentionally becomes world icons. These borders are often barren lands devoid of people except for the occasional border outpost, border crossing stations or border towns. This is often because of defensive design or issues in terrain or accessibility or due to lack of infrastructure roadways, etc. The borders of these nations present main iconic twist in global issues that are unintentional. Most of these borders have flourishing environments unhampered by man not destabilized with urbanization and industrialization. Wars and conflict are mostly fought over resources, territories keyed to these issues. It is these issues that are paramount to our planet in all regions of the world, as well as in the United States.
These sculptures take a slice or section from nature as a still or subliminal image of an environment in past/present or still in transition either being destroyed or healing.
This is a new and developing series of landscape sections miniaturized representing the borders/crossing between countries in varying degrees of conflicts with its neighbor. In this series each of these borders is symbolic of important global issues in the world today and each is always in the media placing them in the mind of the world’s public.
These borders have unintentionally becomes world icons. These borders are often barren lands devoid of people except for the occasional border outpost, border crossing stations or border towns. This is often because of defensive design or issues in terrain or accessibility or due to lack of infrastructure roadways, etc. The borders of these nations present main iconic twist in global issues that are unintentional. Most of these borders have flourishing environments unhampered by man not destabilized with urbanization and industrialization. Wars and conflict are mostly fought over resources, territories keyed to these issues. It is these issues that are paramount to our planet in all regions of the world, as well as in the United States.
These sculptures take a slice or section from nature as a still or subliminal image of an environment in past/present or still in transition either being destroyed or healing.