The series of drawings Bag-dead has been inspired by the second Lebanon war and Israel's bombardments on this country in July-August 2006, but it also evokes the second Iraq war.

The title refers to the body bags in which the dead bodies of the American soldiers were brought back to the US during this war as well as to the name of Iraq's capital,  Baghdad. 

The arrangement of the drawings retraces a narrative wordless mini-chronology which takes the side of all the victims of conflicts: first of all the bombed populations, but also the soldiers trapped in ideologies.

The choice of a frameless edgeless drawing is meant to recreate the impact of wars on cities, bodies, lives: everything is shattered, smashed, leaving only debris and disturbance. People merge into the pulverized environment because war also pulverizes their life and psyche.

Black liquid ink felt pen (2mm tip); white A3 drawing paper (180g); cutting of the drawings into thumbnails for the montage of the narrative with Photoshop (the montage is printed on A4 paper).

Clara Maïda, July 2006