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Darfur, crimes against humanity.

The international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for the Sudanese president for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Read about it here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7923102.stm they also have drawings made by Sudanese village children that will be used as evidence against him. You can see these here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7923247.stm  An estimated 300,000 people have died in Dafur in the last 6 years.  Whilst the warrent may be toothless if it draws attention to the crimes committed against these people then it isn’t ‘worthless’ as some of the media believe.

Drawing by Ishmael age 15

 

My thoughts are with these children and all of those who have been murdered or displaced by the actions of this Sudanese Government.  I am also sorry to hear that Medecins Sans Frontieres have been ordered to withdraw from Darfur.

Women Centre Stage Exhibition

The Women Centre Stage exhibition starts this week, they accepted Landfill despite it being too big. The exhbition is on 4th- 30th March at the Dylan Thomas Centre, Swansea. 

Information re. Landfill  ‘Landfill’ measures approx 410mmX 820mm Materials; Recycled Industrial fridge door made with safety glass donated by the Old Swan, Llantwit Major. The coloured glass is kiln worked bottle glass appliquéd using silicon. Why recycled glass?  Glass is one of the best materials for recycling; it can be recycled repeatedly, saving energy and raw materials. It is not known how long glass takes to breakdown, but glass made 3,000 years ago in the Middle East can still be found today.  Recycling 2 bottles saves enough energy to boil water for 5 cups of tea.  We are great tea drinkers. The other side to this is that women have historically been the recyclers in the family (mainly to do with family economics) using jars for jam making and storage, colored glass for mosaics, and textiles for patchwork, rag rugs etc.  Much of our (womens) recycling has made the materials more appealing than their original incarnation. So hopefully ‘Landfill’ continues in this tradition.   Landfill becomes another part of the landscape and part of our geology, so this is what the final work looks like (a landscape). I hope it reflects all these ideas.