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"Hatshepsut : 17 November 1997"

Handbuilt in craft crank, oxidation fired.

On this day last year Islamic militant gunmen massacred 58 tourists and 6 Egyptian policemen at the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut in Egypt. During the massacre 6 gunmen were also killed.
I had visited the temple in March 1997 with my husband and a friend. Both the temple and the massacre made a deep impression.
The nightmarish thoughts of how it must have been to have tried to survive in the midst of this horror was eventually channelled into a pot. I took the images of Egyptian funerary barges and merged them together with the architectural style of Hatshepsut. The decorative triangles number those killed on 17/11 97.


Lisa Linsdell. UK

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