Award winning, Boston-area video artist Welitoff confronts “what seemed like never ending war” in her 2008 series Anonymous. Using footage borrowed from both contemporary and civil-rights era television documentaries, the artist transforms specific events, places, and people into a blur of repetitive actions. By undoing the specificity of the image and erasing the identity of the soldiers, Welitoff allows viewers to project their personal associations of war onto the video. Our own fluid relationships with these images thus become emblematic of how state-imposed aggression has been normalized in U.S. society.

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