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FALLEN

Ellen Rogers

Performed 6 May 2008
Monument Square, Portland, Maine








This project remembers the American military men and women who have died in Iraq over the last five years.

The war is on-going, yet, for those of us with no direct personal connection to the military, it is all too easy to forget about the war, the fighting, and the people in everyday life.

More than 4,070 soldiers have been killed in Iraq. How can we begin to understand a loss of this magnitude? This artwork marks each death with a drop of paint on the fallen soldier’s home state, giving us one way to see the human cost of the war.

I made this map in Monument Square hoping people would pause to watch drop after red drop hit the white fabric, knowing that each represents a person lost and a family devastated.


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