Gulf War Memories, 1992
Sculpture, digital images, KFC chicken bones, hardware
This work was inspired, in part, by moving to Tampa, Florida in 1991 for my first teaching job at the University of South Florida. Tampa was the home of then retired General "Stormin Norma" Schwarzkopf. A local video store actually had a "Gulf War" section. I checked out some of the videos and did some frame grabs and digital photo montages that appear in this piece. I had read that during the Gulf War fast food sales skyrocketed as people rushed home from work to watch the war on TV. As such, this piece featured prominently computer box fans blowing the smell of Kentucky Fried Chicken bones angled towards the viewer. My first memorial.
Gulf War Memories, 1992