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Mass Grave Chechnya Study1
The first of a series of representational studies on mass grave sites throughout history. This first, although i think it stands alone is really a study for a much larger piece. Chechnya seem to have suffered some appalling atrocities over the last twenty years or more. Dozens of mass graves containing at least hundreds of corpses have been uncovered since the beginning of the Chechen wars in 1994. As of June 2008, there are reported to be 57 registered sites of mass graves in Chechnya. According to Amnesty International , thousands of people are believed to be buried in unmarked graves with up to 5,000 civilians who disappeared since 1999 (the beginning of the Second Chechen War) remaining missing. The largest mass grave to date was found in 2008 in the regional capital Grozny, containing some 800 bodies dating back from the First Chechen War in 1995. Russia's general policy to the Chechen mass graves is to not exhume them.
The piece is constructed on canvas from sand, pva, acrylic paint and clay.
Mass Grave Chechnya Study1
The first of a series of representational studies on mass grave sites throughout history. This first, although i think it stands alone is really a study for a much larger piece. Chechnya seem to have suffered some appalling atrocities over the last twenty years or more. Dozens of mass graves containing at least hundreds of corpses have been uncovered since the beginning of the Chechen wars in 1994. As of June 2008, there are reported to be 57 registered sites of mass graves in Chechnya. According to Amnesty International , thousands of people are believed to be buried in unmarked graves with up to 5,000 civilians who disappeared since 1999 (the beginning of the Second Chechen War) remaining missing. The largest mass grave to date was found in 2008 in the regional capital Grozny, containing some 800 bodies dating back from the First Chechen War in 1995. Russia's general policy to the Chechen mass graves is to not exhume them.
The piece is constructed on canvas from sand, pva, acrylic paint and clay.