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In this series, I focused on pages from the New York Times that carried stories on Iraqi civilian casualties in the Iraq war. I used a 9B pencil to block out most the photograph and text in order to recontextualize and transform the content of the news story, thereby shifting control and cultural output. I repeatedly drew over and over the page, creating a depth and density so palpable that the page asserts itself as a physical object rather than an abstract carrier of information. Through this process and its result, I hope to shake loose the shrugging indifference perpetrated through the disconnect of lived experience and disembodied information.

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