A more ominous idea was a bundle of explosives with connected fuses. The artist has labelled those in the foreground “Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Iran”, to signify how Iran’s theocratic regime makes mischief via its proxy militias in these countries. However, to represent the true tangle of burning fuses in the region, we would have had to add more names, beginning with Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. That would quickly have become too much to take in at a glance, and would have required an uncomfortably small typeface. So we tried a less direct approach: an array of matches, each one just close enough to the next to risk igniting it. |