{"id":128,"date":"2003-05-14T22:26:02","date_gmt":"2003-05-15T02:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/?p=128"},"modified":"2012-05-23T14:38:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T18:38:37","slug":"render-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melchin.org\/oeuvre\/render-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Render"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n2003
\n(painting) oil on velvet, steel
\n(West Bank wall) wax, pigment on fragments of Keffiyeh, wood
\n(wall panels) wood, hardware
\n18 x 18 x 9 feet<\/p>\n

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of a secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty.”
\n-James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son<\/p>\n

“…you ignored us while we were alive, well here we are, dead; our death didn\u2019t interest you as long as it occurred on our own territory, well, now we throw it at your feet in the fire that consumes you; though we were invisible as we lived, visible suicides is what we will become.”
\n-Bernard-Henri L\u00e9vy, R\u00e9flexions sur la Guerre: Le Mal et La Fin de l\u2019Histoire<\/p>\n

A condition resides within the enshrouded room. A portrait, framed in armor, appears tearful, facing the exit encrusted with shattered particles that form a map of contested territories. Painted in the Venetian style, the image is \u201cclown compromised\u201d and \u201cterrorized\u201d by \u201cmasking,\u201d leaving only sad eyes and a down-turned mouth on the kitsch of black velvet. On the walls, encaustic fragments of wood and shredded kuffiyehs suggest the remains of a suicide bomber.<\/p>\n

A space for inadequate descriptions: The evidence of a Palestinian woman suicide bomber and her victims, under a tearful, militaristic male gaze.<\/p>\n

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