Art in Iraq (Updated)

UPDATE: Fixed the link. Sorry for being an idiot.

This is a story from the New York Times today that’s worth tak­ing a look at. It’s writ­ten by an Iraqi sculp­tor and, not sur­pris­ingly, pro­vides a new view of how ter­ri­fy­ingly dark and impos­si­bly fucked up it is there.

So every time I pick up my pen and try to sketch, I find myself draw­ing scenes of death, and when I try to think of it as a way to let off steam a lit­tle, I start to feel pity for the per­son who is going to see it.

See?