FALLUJA

A military helicopter fly over the city, a magic city of the Middle East, pacific and maybe sleeping.

Suddenly, that military vehicle hits the city with rockets and bombs, causing destruction, death and terror: an authentic nocturnal raid.

It’s an American helicopter, with the badge of the American flag on its nacelle….but, strangely, the rectangular on the left side of the top is empty, there are not white stars…

The planets, symbol of peace, now tower up in the nocturnal sky, but that sky is not blue…it’s red coloured, red as the blood of the victims in an aerial incursion.

The inhabitants of the city emerge from the ruins, but inside their clothes, there are not human faces anymore, on the contrary macabre skulls that seem to yell.

Macabre skulls with their empty orbits instead of scary eyes…

Skeletal traces of human beings.

Death came from above visiting Falluja city…

Walter Storri

translator: Luca Pulitini

acrylic on canvas 50x60 (2005)