BOX OF SHADOWS 1/4

BOX OF SHADOWS

Edition of 4 signed boxes

For sale at : www.tiradalimitada.com

 

This Box of Shadows collection has been inspired by the work “U.S.A. Surpasses all the genocide records!” that George Maciunas made in 1969 as a way of protest against the Vietnam War pointing out the violence in the world and specially that of the U.S.A.

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Now I have wanted to broaden it by showing the number of deaths in the most bloody wars in history of man, always consequence of the ambition of a greedy minority.

I conclude with a card that poses the question of how many casualties will left the global financial crisis that started in 2008, now considered by many as our III War World.

 

For the time being we have only information about the people killed in protests, occupations and rallies, or of those who have killed themselves bankrupt for junk bonds, subprime credits or whatever other kind of those economy tricks, but we should start counting all the people slowly dying at home in the streets or in hospitals by depression, hunger, shame, or rage due to the cuts in the welfare state.

 

Inside the box there are 12 cards with a drawing on one side and one of the following texts on the other:

 

Card 1

Spanish Civil War 1936- 1950: 700,000 dead

 

Card 2

World War II 1939- 1945: 75 million dead

 

Card 3

World War I 1914 - 1918: 31 million dead

 

Card 4

Napoleonic Wars 1799- 1815: 7,203,000 dead

 

Card 5

Russian Civil War 1917 – 1922: 20 million dead

 

Card 6

Darfur Conflict 2003-2011: 450,000 dead

 

Card 7

The Crusades 1096- 1291: 6,000,000 dead

 

Card 8

Second Congo War 1998-2003: 7,000,000 dead

 

Card 9

Ivorian Civil War 2002 – 2007 : 400,000 dead

 

Card 10

Somali Civil war 1988- 2011: 1,000,000 dead

 

Card 11

Iran- Iraq War 1980 -1988: 500,000 to 1,000.000 dead

 

Card 12

Late-2000s Financial Crisis 2008 – ¿

Number of casualties not calculated yet

 

 

 

Done