The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
This work consist of stylized pictograms of the 'Tree of Life' found on Persian carpets and the mihrab from prayer rugs. They have combined together to create a new ideograph that depicts the cloaked and haloed figure of the Virgin. The image is repeated along the edges of the print and helps to set up the rhythm of patterning found on Persian carpets. A middle column contains two unaltered 'Tree of Life' pictograms, and a central abstract image of a deformed carpet is printed as a photograph negative to the surrounding photograph positive images. By transforming the tree pictogram into the 'Tree of Death', Bot reinforces our realisation of our own mortality and the pointless and cruel slaughter of Iraqi civilians during the First Gulf War (1990-91).
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This rare drawing depicting the official war graves site at Labuan Island created at the end of the Second World War was drawn by an unidentified member of the 23 Aust War Graves Unit. He has inscribe