Stencil Art and T-wall Graffiti of the GWOT

Dublin Core

Title

Stencil Art and T-wall Graffiti of the GWOT

Subject

Explore the flashes of anonymous expressions of creativity, humor, frustration, and obscenity coalition troops left on the area of operations ubiquitous and drab protective concrete bremer walls and protective bunkers.

Description

Explore the flashes of anonymous expressions of creativity, humor, frustration, and obscenity coalition troops left on the area of operations ubiquitous and drab protective concrete bremer walls and protective bunkers.

'Stencil art — one of the oldest art forms — seems a perfect fit for the military, a subculture focused on uniformity and limits. Well-defined rules govern life for service members within the base perimeter. Often associated with protest movements and adrift between free-form graffiti and sanctioned signage, it is a subversive form caught within borders. The very edges that seek to restrain actually form the art. These boundaries also ask to be broken. With stencils, conformity becomes liberating.'
- Lingle, Brandon. "Stenciled Relief for Forward Operating Base Monotony" AUGUST 21, 2012

Creator

The War Murals Project
the_acunicorn

Collection Items

CP Taipan HKIA- Kabul, Afghanistan 2019
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Mongolian Armed Forces T-wall is from New Kabul Compound (NKC), Kabul. 2019

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Aussie blast wall art- Camp Baker 2013 (25 photos)
Australian Army blast wall art and stencils by Soldier/ artists 'Zerosix' and 'McFly' at Camp Baker- Kandahar Airfield Afghanistan 2013. Additional photos from the Facebook page of Zerosix.



Kandahar Airfield Stencil Art 2020- Twall Stencil Art (75 photos)
KAF, 2020, before they slathered pink paint over every single piece of graffiti on post. It’s all gone now.
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