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These collages shown in their physical form with the exhibition Harboring were originally created for Triple Canopy's 4th issue, "War, Money, Magic". The figures in the pictures all found on the internet fold time and space in their embrace. From Iraq to New Orleans and from current conflict to WW2, the figures recombine in empathy. From Triple Canopy:
In 1988, when Owens was sixteen, she visited her father in South Africa, where he was a missionary. He helped arrange a conversation with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Owens asked Tutu about religious strife and the nature of violence. His response, and twelve new collages drawing on images of putative enemies found on the Internet, constitute the second project in Triple Canopy’s Internet as Material series, which is intended to facilitate the creation of original work specific to an online space, by visual artists who have never done such work.
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