Thursday, 6 December 2007

Praying

There was a moment when you were on your knees on the floor and you looked like you were praying or a prisoner or an image of an execution. I don't want to load that on too heavily but that image is there. Looking back now as I write this I imagine the terrorists praying on a generic motel carpet on the morning of 9:11 or at the airport facing east. That inbetween space again between checking in and taking off. Or a prisoner at Abu Graib again kneeling naked in a pool of his own urine with a hood on his head and an American GI doing a thumbs up to the camera. Or You Tube footage of a hostage being beheaded before it is taken offline and you hear about it and half of you wants to see it and the other half can't believe it could happen. All these moments that deal with acts of terror are starting to emerge from the piece and I wonder if this is where the show is heading now. Heading into darker territory.

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