“Sudan, 2002″
4.5 ft x 45 ft
acrylic paint, plastic

This piece, a walkway installed for approximately a month on the main floor of a University of Illinois building, was our first major public intervention. Intended to highlight not just the ongoing genocide in Sudan but the complicity we have had in all the genocides over the past century, it forced viewers to walk on images, enlarged photographs painted onto clear plastic, depicting the atrocities of war. Over the course of its installation many people were profoundly impacted, especially those with personal connections to genocide, and several classes met in the hallway to discuss the piece.