After my tutorial feedback I looked into the talk that Coco Fusco gave about the strength and power an image can possess. She talks about the image shown above on Time Magazine. Fusco deals very much with political art. The image above was created to recognise the war effort in Afghanistan and to send out a liberal message, or so we were meant to think. It was actually employed by the CIA to gather sympathy.
I think the use of Madeleine McCann in my work is a well recognised image. I have already had the cleaners in the studio asking me about my work after seeing Madeleine's face. The power of an image can be very strong. I explained the meaning behind MWWS and they said 'oh yea, you are so right!'.
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