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SUM & PARTS is an interdisciplinary documentary sculpture installation joining oral history, figurative sculpture (using body casts of Agent Orange victims), and performance art to explore the personal and cultural history of the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam war, and in a wider sense the long-term ecological and social costs of warfare.The core of this project is to bring to light the stories of ordinary people living under the extraordinary consequences of war. Individuals face the dichotomy of having bodies that are both private and social. Agent Orange-connected disabilities and issues regarding compensation and responsibility are continually debated and contested publicly, but at the same time have deeply personal implications for the victims.
This work is predicated on the assumption that art can effectively communicate and contribute to the discourse of politically and emotionally charged subject matter in an appropriate and meaningful way.

Agent Orange was an herbicide used by the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War as a weapon to defoliate the landscape and cripple local food sources. The manufacturing process used to make the herbicide created the carcinogenic and mutagenetic by-product dioxin. An estimated 12 million gallons of Agent Orange was sprayed on 10 percent of Vietnamese land, creating one of the most devastating examples of ecocide, and altering the lives, minds, and bodies of generations.Currently, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs recognizes 11 Agent Orange service-connected diseases in Vietnam Veterans, as well as the birth defect Spina Bifida in the children born to exposed troops. In Vietnam the situation is grave. Populations living in communities where high concentrations of the herbicide were used, have extremely high instances of cancer and severe birth defects.

I have not yet met the financial goal to produce this project. Donations of any size are greatly appreciated and will be used for the costs of materials. Your support will help me to realize this project and make it available to the public.
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