Saturday, March 21, 2009

The Fertile Crescent


Steve Mumford
"Soldiers and Bathers, Tigris River, 2003"
2003
Ink on paper
From Mumford's Baghdad Journal


What a marvel to consider the historical and global reverberations of human activity in the Fertile Crescent! Few regions of the globe remain untouched by the profound ideologies and prejudices birthed between the rivers...

...and still the fighting continues.

Photo credit: Artwork reproduction ripped from artnet

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