U n f i n i s h e d  P o r t r a i t



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Recalling those killed on all sides by the invasion and occupation of Iraq


The American Dead                           The Dead in Iraq

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The work


On Friday, February 29, in preparation for the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, the artwork Unfinished Portrait by Priti Cox will open at the former McCune Paper Company building at 254 N. Santa Fe in Salina, Kansas.

A hybrid painting/installation more than two years in the making, Unfinished Portrait features individual portraits of the first 3000 US troops who died in Iraq following the March 20, 2003 invasion and commemorates the innumerable residents of Iraq who have died.

Unfinished Portrait 2008

Unfinished Portrait 2013


    In 2013, I propose to recreate Unfinished Portrait, but also include America's longest war, Afghanistan, in the work. The installation will be an expansion of the 2008 version, only now there will be 6000 painted portraits - troops who have died both In Iraq and Afghanistan. The work will still be unfinished, with the fiftieth and last panel left incomplete, again emphasizing the fact that despite President Obama being elected to office on his belief that the invasion of Iraq was wrong, we are still there. And now Afghanistan seems to have no end in sight either.


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