DeAnza campus art display 'counts' war casualties

Source: mercurynews.com Posted By: Chaffins P...5476 days ago

Students, staff and faculty at DeAnza College are taking long reflective looks at Kathleen Crocetti's art installation, which depicts the 4,258 American casualties and approximately 99,000 Iraqi dead since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

The installation, titled, "Counting Lives Lost: Making Tangible an Abstract Measure of Grief," is on display at the Main Quad on campus. Each casualty is represented by a five-inch clay figurine anchored in a base containing 22 cubic yards of....

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