State of the art #2

Kerblog and Witnessing (Again) (or Mazen Kerbaj's Flickr stream) (via CityRag) It's impossible to escape what's going on in Israel and Lebanon right now, which is probably a good thing. But at the same time, it still feels largely anonymous. All the recurring footage of wreckage and debris, of hordes of displaced citizens, of people swearing that they're on the right side of the conflict. But two artists in Lebanon, 30-year-old Mazen Kerbaj and his mother, 75-year-old Laure Ghoyareb, are showing the war on new terms, registering their protests in the ink of the Internet. Here is a sample of Mazen's work: Here is a sample of Laure's work: