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The Waiting Gardens of North
A house with a date palm will never starve
The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)
The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)
The invisible enemy should not exist
May the obdurate foe not be in good health
The Ballad of Special Ops Cody
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze
For us, the living
The flesh is yours, the bones are ours
Radio Silence
Imperfect Binding
Geniza for Ostia
Dar Al Sulh
What dust will rise?
Spoils
The Breakup
May the arrogant not prevail
The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own
White man got no dreaming
Enemy Kitchen
Endgames
The Visionaries
Dull Roar
Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy
RETURN
(p)LOT: Proposition I
Romanticized all out of proportion
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The Waiting Gardens of North
A house with a date palm will never starve
The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)
The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)
The invisible enemy should not exist
May the obdurate foe not be in good health
The Ballad of Special Ops Cody
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze
For us, the living
The flesh is yours, the bones are ours
Radio Silence
Imperfect Binding
Geniza for Ostia
Dar Al Sulh
What dust will rise?
Spoils
The Breakup
May the arrogant not prevail
The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own
White man got no dreaming
Enemy Kitchen
Endgames
The Visionaries
Dull Roar
Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy
RETURN
(p)LOT: Proposition I
Romanticized all out of proportion
Minaret
Rise
Climate Control
paraSITE
DOWNLOADS
MICHAEL RAKOWITZ
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The Waiting Gardens of North
A house with a date palm will never starve
The invisible enemy should not exist (Lamassu of Nineveh)
The invisible enemy should not exist (Northwest Palace of Nimrud)
The invisible enemy should not exist
May the obdurate foe not be in good health
The Ballad of Special Ops Cody
I'm good at love, I'm good at hate, it's in between I freeze
For us, the living
The flesh is yours, the bones are ours
Radio Silence
Imperfect Binding
Geniza for Ostia
Dar Al Sulh
What dust will rise?
Spoils
The Breakup
May the arrogant not prevail
The worst condition is to pass under a sword which is not one's own
White man got no dreaming
Enemy Kitchen
Endgames
The Visionaries
Dull Roar
Test Ballot: Examining the Faulty Machinery of Democracy
RETURN
(p)LOT: Proposition I
Romanticized all out of proportion
Minaret
Rise
Climate Control
paraSITE
DOWNLOADS
INFORMATION

 

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The plates were purchased on eBay from two different sources: an active American soldier serving in the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division—the same unit that captured Saddam Hussein—and an Iraqi refugee now living in Michigan.  View fullsize
The dishware was looted from Saddam’s palaces after they were destroyed by Coalition Forces. Personal household items such as plates and silverware were taken by Iraqi citizens, many of whom used them in their own homes—a dispersal of power.   View fullsize
Rare pieces of Wedgewood china once owned by King Faisal II were also acquired for the project. The plates were looted from the Iraqi monarch’s palaces following his execution in 1958, but were found among Saddam’s own dishware in 2003. It has been View fullsize
spoils_05.jpg View fullsize
A US Marshal  from the Asset Forfeiture Unit inspects Saddam’s dishes at Creative Time’s offices in New York City following the issuance of a Cease and Desist letter demanding the “surrender of the Iraqi plates to the U.S. Attorney's office View fullsize
Video still of Saddam Hussein's dishes being repatriated to the Republic of Iraq at the request of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and at the behest of US President Barack Obama during their meeting in Washington, D.C. on December 11, 2011 to View fullsize
Spoils appeared on the front page of The New York Times ’ coverage of the end of the Iraq War on December 15, 2011. View fullsize
spoils_01.jpg
The plates were purchased on eBay from two different sources: an active American soldier serving in the 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division—the same unit that captured Saddam Hussein—and an Iraqi refugee now living in Michigan. 
The dishware was looted from Saddam’s palaces after they were destroyed by Coalition Forces. Personal household items such as plates and silverware were taken by Iraqi citizens, many of whom used them in their own homes—a dispersal of power.  
Rare pieces of Wedgewood china once owned by King Faisal II were also acquired for the project. The plates were looted from the Iraqi monarch’s palaces following his execution in 1958, but were found among Saddam’s own dishware in 2003. It has been
spoils_05.jpg
A US Marshal  from the Asset Forfeiture Unit inspects Saddam’s dishes at Creative Time’s offices in New York City following the issuance of a Cease and Desist letter demanding the “surrender of the Iraqi plates to the U.S. Attorney's office
Video still of Saddam Hussein's dishes being repatriated to the Republic of Iraq at the request of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and at the behest of US President Barack Obama during their meeting in Washington, D.C. on December 11, 2011 to
Spoils appeared on the front page of The New York Times ’ coverage of the end of the Iraq War on December 15, 2011.