Redaction Suite
Found Objects
2008

Left Image: Page 79 from the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq from July 7, 2004.

Right Image: Page 79 from the the US National Intelligence Estimate Report on Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction from October 2002.

A colour study of redaction as a specifically political form of erasure. What ostensibly looks like a monochromatic colour field study is, given this specific context, an allusion to horrific actions. Here, the organization of information overrides any information itself. Laid out in point form or numbered to indicate sequence and searchability, the implication is that a mathematical logic structures the reports, which can be searched, but not seen.