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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 |