My husband and I are potters and saw the George Bush installation in person at the convention for potters in Portland last year. It was absolutely amazing and overwhelming to see that each little tile (each about 4-6 inches) had its own war theme that were fired so that when put together form a photo of the perpetrator of our current problems.
From the gallery description
http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2006/04/nceca_roundup_p_1.html: "The central work in the exhibition, A Precarious Moment in History, is a mural comprised of individual tiles bearing imagery of death, warfare and destruction. Together, they form a large-scale drawing depicting the face of our current president. Here, Notkin continues working in the same process of his 1999 mural of a mushroom cloud, entitled The Gift, which can be seen at the Portland Art Museum. In his latest mural, Notkin takes more risks in his choice of subject matter, placing the current political climate within the continuum of history..."
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