An art collective laid out an enormous picture of a young Pakistani girl to catch the attention of U.S. Predator drone pilots.
This giant picture of a child was laid out two weeks ago in rural Pakistan by a group of artists who want to help “save innocent lives”.
The piece was installed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province, close to Pakistan's northwest border with Afghanistan, by an art collective which includes Pakistanis, Americans and others associated with the French artist JR.
The collective says they produced the work in the hope that U.S. drone operators will see the human face of their victims in a region that has been the target of frequent strikes.
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The artists titled their work #NotABugSplat, a reference to the alleged nickname drone pilots have for their victims.
“Bug splat” is the term used by US drone pilots to describe the death of an individual as seen on a drone camera because “viewing the body through a grainy video image gives the sense of an insect being crushed”.
The artists say that the purpose of #NotABugSplat is to make those human blips seem more real to the pilots based thousands of miles away: “Now, when viewed by a drone camera, what an operator sees on his screen is not an anonymous dot on the landscape, but an innocent child victim’s face.”
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A spokesman for the group told BuzzFeed that the artwork would eventually be reused by the locals.
“The piece was left there for as long as people decided to use the fabric for roofing and other useful purposes. The art was always meant to be utilized and not discarded after it was photographed,” said Saks Afridi a New York-based artist and former advertising creative who is handling media enquiries on behalf of the group.
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“We cannot disclose [the] exact village in order to protect the locals,” Afridi said.
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This Giant Portrait Of A Child Shows Drone Operators The Human Face Of Their Victims
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