https://contemporaryartumd.artinterp.org/omeka/files/original/1a475abfd074bbbd8d231b88bde74931.jpg 815e8fa5b1a30863bc3dc4b923c69f82 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Archival inkjet photograph Physical Dimensions The actual physical size of the original image Image: 24 x 30 in. Framed: 25 x 31 in. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource <em>The Ashes Series: Dark Palace</em> Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Wafaa Bilal Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2003–2013 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Image Courtesy of Driscoll Babcock Galleries Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource JPEG Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image Description An account of the resource <p>In 1992, Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal arrived in the United States, having fled Saddam Hussein’s regime and spent two years in refugee camps. More than a decade later, he watched the American war in Iraq unfold in the media and claim the lives of his brother and father. Seeking connection with home, Bilal began to collect news photographs of domestic spaces in Iraq that were destroyed by violent conflict. This work is based on an image of one of Saddam Hussein’s palaces. Bilal reconstructed these images painstakingly by hand as miniature models, using materials like cardboard and plaster. For the artist this process provided, “a way for me to exist within . . . and, in a sense, to rebuild the places in Iraq where my brother and father were killed.” Before photographing the models, Bilal dusted them with 21 grams of human ashes. It is this pale substance that appears as a soft, luminous glow at the center of the photograph, a palpable reminder of human presence even where it is difficult to detect.   </p> Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 2015.1.5