[ WAR BIRDS + FRIENDS ]

In the First and Second World Wars, armies on all sides used carrier pigeons as a means of communications, reconnaissance, and intelligence. There was also a booming business in gas masks for children and animals. This series plays with archival images of children and animals within various apparatus of wartime.

Consider the Word: Gas/Mask

May 16, 2010
Consider the Word: Gas/Mask

There is so much gas we can barely breathe. They call it drilling for oil, but it’s a gunshot wound through the flesh of this earth. Mind the children. Behind their portholes are eyes. The only skin exposed is on our hands and knees, as though at some point we might return to all...
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BumbleMoth (image by Paetrick Schmidt)
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