BLACK WORD IN RED INK

The black words are: Abu Graib, after torturing them, ambush, armed men, assassination, attackers/assaulters, beheaded/mutilated, blood/bloody, booby-trapped corpse, blowing up, bombs, combats/confrontations, corpse/corpses, displaced people, decomposed, expelled/evicted, explosion, fatalities, fugitives, floating corpses, gruesome, handcuffed, kidnapped persons, looted, maimed persons, masked men, mass graves, missing persons, morgue, occupation, roadside bomb, refugees, revengeful, setting it alight, sniper, suicide bombers, their death, their hands (tied to their backs), their heads (severed or shot at point-blank range), terrifying, threatening them, unidentified men, violent/violently, and wounded persons.

 

 

The total number of words is fifty-four. All are written in calligraphy ink on forty-four sheets of white glossy paper measuring 64 by 45 cm each. A special broad-edged wooden calligraphy pen (approximately 2 cm wide) was used to write the words. The first word was written in September 2007 and the last one in March 2008.

 

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