Impression, proche orient 2 | Syria
Video Still - work in progress
Foam Board Model
Mausoleum for a President
2010
virtual sculpture - video - work in progress
President Bashar's father Hafez and brother Basil are buried in a vast echoing mausoleum in the city of Qardaha. This M (“E down”) shaped mausoleum might be how President Bashar’s Mausoleum will look like.
Bashar al-Assad is a British-trained ophthalmologist and the eye doctor’s tumbling E eye chart is the alpha and omega of the Syrian IPO chapter. Does Dr. Bashar still dream about tumbling Eye Doctor E charts and the course for Syria they might chart: left, right, up or down?
video © 2010 - Ben Washington