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The Sorrows Multiply: Visualising Iraq War Casualties

Aaron Seymour

A direct response to the Coalition invasion of Iraq, The Sorrows Multiply visualizes the magnitude and tragedy of this war. Situated below the ceiling of the gallery, thousands of paper squares are stacked in a custom-built mechanical device. 115,800 in total, they represent the most conservative estimate of civilian causalities in the conflict. Over the course of the exhibition they are mechanically pushed to the floor below. Blown around the gallery space, they build in number consuming the room in a violent and mesmeric snowstorm.

The Sorrows Multiply explores the power of design to evoke the innumerable scale of contemporary events through information visualisation strategies. The exhibition is significant because it pushes the conventional display of information into new and more engaging territory. While aiming to convey contextualised data, The Sorrows Multiply also explores affective rather than didactic modes of presentation, and shifts from conventional graphic modes of print and screen display to environmental installation.
 

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The Sorrows Multiply is an installation that
attempts to visualize the effect of the Iraq

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War on civilians, in particular, the number
of civilians who have been killed during the

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conflict in Iraq.

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The gallery is closed, and it's viewed from
outside.

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There's a device, a kind of machine, that
hangs from the ceiling, which is loaded up

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with paper, which over the course of the exhibition,
pushes 120,000 small paper squares into the

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gallery space.

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These squares are then blown around by industrial
fans, and over the course of the exhibition,

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the gallery starts out empty, and over a month,
the number of pieces of paper increase until

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finally at the end of the gallery, it's consumed
by this snowstorm of paper.