another dead pigeon
The abstract graphical symbol of a dead pigeon – inspired by the line police draws around a dead body on a crime scene – is origin and base for this project. It is a symbol for the death of peace or the death of freedom.
The main project is a long-term: the symbol is manipulated in a photo. The photos used are collected from real places around the world - places where actually something bad has happened: peace or freedom have died there. We can read about what happened, we can read when it happend. What we see, though, is just a section of the ground – it could be everywhere.
And - virtually - it did happen everywhere. In every place where people have set foot, they have done terrible things to each other. Ultimately, this is an almost comforting and unifying thought: no reason to feel better than others...
To promote the main project I tend to set up special installations during all kinds of events using the pigeon symbols. Find some on the subpages.