Wafaa Bilal pokes his head out from behind a plexiglass screen to squeegee off dripping yellow paint and — splat! — a paintball hits inches from his face.
“They wait for me to let my guard down, like predators,” said Bilal, an Iraqi artist who has holed himself up in a Chicago gallery for a month with a paintball gun that people can shoot at him over the Internet, at http://www.crudeoils.us, 24 hours a day.
Antiwar Art in a New Medium: Paintball-on-Web (Washington Post)
Who else thinks “Paintball-on-Web” sounds like a small town in England?
Previously ‘varked:
I don’t want to shoot at you. I don’t want to watch you being shot at. I want to bring you bread and honey and a sunflower for your table. I hope you learn that’s how most of us feel. We would rather bring sustenance and beauty to our brothers and sisters in war zones. We just don’t know how to go about doing it.