You remember the sound of the gunshot. It's disingenuous to ask where you recall that sound from, because you remember it from everywhere. It's everywhere, a sudden sound that announces the arrival of a consequence. The ineluctable speed of the blast is strangely smeared by the numbing repetition of it's recurrence...the human death toll, 1000 gun deaths daily, slumps within a worldwide scene of gunfire.
Friendly Fire is a collection of memories of gunshots from various locations and begins to investigate the poetry of that sound so happily lodged in our minds, and so easily brought to mind...or maybe it's just another hail of bullets?
As the rain of Friendly Fire pelts your powerless body, know that the members of this firing squad range from just 4 years to 90 years of age.
March 2008