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Sebastian errazuriz: american kills

Sebastian errazuriz: american kills
aug 19, 2010 sebastian errazuriz: american kills ‘american kills’ installation ‘american kills’ by chilean-born new york based artist sebastian errazuriz is a public installation showcasing the suicide rates of US soldiers. after searching on official war sites on the internet, he accidentally found out that 2 times more american soldiers had died in 2009 by committing suicide than those killed during that same year in the war in iraq; an alarming comparison that errazuriz had personally never read or heard about before. according to the artist, a first google search showed only reports of media alarm about suicide rates, but the information was always comfortably presented divided into months and generally separated by statistics from the army, navy or air-force. ‘when I first found the overall statistics summed the 304 suicides by US soldiers during 2009, I was shocked.

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Cin-Covered Wishing Trees in Portmeirion, Britain Sticking hundreds of small denomination coins into tree trunks is apparently a popular way of getting rid of illnesses. At least that’s what the staff at a holiday attraction in Gwynedd discovered after investigating the story behind several coin-covered tree trunks in the vicinity of Italianate village Portmeirion. The first tree was cut down four years ago, in order to widen the path to the picturesque settlement founded in 1925, and within only a few months it was covered with 2p coins. Now there are seven such tree trunks in the area, so estate manager Meurig Jones started an investigation to uncover the origins of this unusual habit. Photo credits She managed to track down coin-covered trees back to the 1700s, when they were apparently used as wishing trees. Photo credits Photo credits Photo credits Photo credits Reddit Stumble

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