ordinary citizens



Youtube, Added March 17, 2006
A series of drawings and paintings of the faces of victims of Stalins terror. These faces are based on photographs taken while these people were being interogated by the secret police and are the last record of these people. I first saw these pictures in a Sunday Times article by David King a few years ago. David King has subequently written a book, Ordinary Citizens, that details how these people were arrested under trumped up charges ,hearsay and falsified evidence. Interestingly some secret police themselves became victims.
The animation morphes the drawings and paintings together and is set to an original sound track that I wrote and recorded, called 'A theme on Gorecki. And is similar in style to that composer ...danbohane