Woven Wars, collateral tapestries

“We should allow the horrific images to follow us. Even though they might only be samples that don’t embrace the vast majority of the reality they mean. Nevertheless, they have an essential function. These images speak: this is what human beings are capable of doing, and may do, with enthusiasm, convinced that what they do is just. Do not forget.”
Susan Sontag. Ante el dolor de los demás. 2004

These works are part of Woven Wars, collateral tapestries. They are digitally crafted compositions made using war images from the Middle East as their palettes. Located between two fields of interpretation, from the distance to the closeness, between the aesthetic and the semantic, many weavings imitate the patterns of common use carpets, which working as movable gardens could be the ones covering the floors of houses like the ones found under siege or being bombed. In these warps, the photographs are the signs of a reality fouled by saturation. These are photos of people – victims that float around the Internet – that were taken by anonymous reporters for different news agencies.