MICHELLE FORSYTH



TRAUMA PAINTINGS (2002-2005)

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Using images of disaster and accident in this series of work, I worked to address the human costs involved in living within contemporary technological society. Based on a collection of images of trauma culled from television, newspapers, and the Internet that picture the aftermath of terrorist attacks, bombings, massacres and images of war, I used an elaborate and time consuming process in order to slow the images down. The grid bacame a nexus between the bitmapped images and the hand-crafted ones.