Michelle Forsyth

Florescence 1 (Flowers for Iraq) , 2004
Color-Aid paper, felt, beads and pins, 60 x 84 inches
[ destroyed ]

Florescence (Flowers for Iraq), 2004-07

Florescence (Flowers for Iraq) is a series of installation pieces that examine images from the war in Iraq available on Internet sites. In these works, I have attempted to rescue the horrific images from their de-personalized context and imbue them with a sense of beauty. Creating them out of thousands of small, colorful pieces of paper they become memorials to the brutal realities of horrors of war.

Florescence 1 (Flowers for Iraq), 2004
Color-Aid paper, felt, beads and pins, 60 x 84 inches
[ destroyed ]

Florescence 2 (Flowers for Iraq), 2006
Color-Aid paper, watercolor paper, casein, felt, plastic and pins, 60 x 84 inches
[ private collection ]

Installing Florescence 2 (Flowers for Iraq), 2006
Color-Aid paper, watercolor paper, casein, felt, plastic and pins, 60 x 84 inches
[ private collection ]

Florescence 3 (Flowers for Iraq), 2006
Color-Aid paper, watercolor paper, casein, felt, plastic and pins, 48 x 60 inches
[ destroyed ]

Florescence 3 (Flowers for Iraq) in progress, 2006
Color-Aid paper, watercolor paper, casein, felt, plastic and pins, 48 x 60 inches
[ destroyed ]

Florescence 4 (Flowers for Iraq), 2006
Color-Aid paper, watercolor paper, black sommerset, casein, gouache, watercolor, felt, plastic and pins, 36 x 48 inches
[ private collection ]

Florescence 5 (Flowers for Iraq), 2007
Color-Aid paper, watercolor paper, black sommerset, casein, gouache, watercolor, felt, plastic and pins, 84 x 60 inches
[ destroyed ]

Florescence 5 (Flowers for Iraq) in progress, 2007
Color-Aid paper, watercolor paper, black sommerset, casein, gouache, watercolor, felt, plastic and pins, 84 x 60 inches
[ destroyed ]

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