Fallen comrades is an installation inspired by the numerous victims around the world who die within the “safe” walls of an educational institution. The university gallery provided ideal location for bringing attention to the ongoing killings of young and eager minds everywhere. Society, especially in the US, is desensitized to the horrors of strategic killings. The installation tears the veil of comfort and depicts a scene of death where insect size humanoids voided of identity or personality lie randomly on the floor. Like poisoned fruit flies, those young lives will never fulfill their destiny. Among the numerous lives, the life of an individual can be acknowledged as precious, however the comfort of separation allows for the unrecognized to remain unimportant, another casualty of a mindless act. Regardless of the unintended apathy, each extinguished life deserves to be honored ,celebrated, and acknowledged.
