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LIGHT ON SYRIA installation palisade of matches on Syria map plus photos by George Paul Salle (France USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). G. P. Salle

MEAT APOLLO, MEAT VENUS touch-up on photos by Orion Kostas Xylouris (Greece) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). "Pictures of statues with marble skin and flesh bodies." O.K. Xylouris.

SOSPESI phototouch by Giampaolo Marcantoni (Italy) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). A people adrift between yards and pylons, light poles and phone repeaters, suspended above its sea of problems, distracted and amused. The reference is not really to the Italian people, even though it is the subject, but more widely to all the western populations, that while the system collapses, they live in a daily enchanted.

WELCOME photo of Lifebuoy with Welcome text on it, Installation on Mediterranean Sea. By Goran Branko Vidovic for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org).

SEVEN DAYS OF FALLING 3D and touch-up on WWII images by George Paul Salle (France-USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). Capsule pills bombing on territory.

PUDDLE (Video) [min 1:57] by WakeUpAndSleep WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). The video-opera Puddle is about the slowly involution of fast-food society..

POP CORN BONB ON HIROSHIMA - H-Bomb explosion made by pop-corn by Eky Cash (Japan-USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). Eky Cash created this pop corn esplosion and put that in a red round plate. The result is a flag of Japan canceled by an explosion of american pop food.

SOS FROM NATURE art installation by Giampaolo Marcantoni (Italy) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). Nature caged in steel and concrete structure trying to ask for help in the only language the man seems to understand: the universal Morse language.

COUNT DOWN (Video) [min 3:24] by Giampaolo Marcantoni (Italy) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). The video-opera Count Down compares the slow nature of the building with the speed of man in destroying.

ONLYFOOD phototouch by Thomas Füster (USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). ONLYFOOD (Only Food) is the country where everything revolves around the nourishment that drowns and annihilates all thought.

100 SECONDS (Video) [sec 100] by Giampaolo Marcantoni (Italy) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). 100 seconds is a video-opera focuses on simple non-random/random movements of a tarpaulin covering the bales of hay.

H(ANDY) BONB paper cut origami made from exercise book by Eky Cash (Japan-USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). Eky Cash created "nice" espolsions paper, almost origami, you can put in your bag and expose wherever we are to feel always in a pleasant and familiar.

nine-eleven iPhone touch-up by by George Paul Salle (France-USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). "nine-eleven on iPhone" produced to commemorate the dark page of the collapse of the towers of Manhattan. Puts in close relationship with the technology and the drama seems to crystallize in a postcard the two towers in an eternal and undefined moment. Just their presence on a screen of a mobile seems to preserve intact the existence in a big technology lie.

HOLLYFOOD (WELCOME TO) photos. Installation on food by Thomas Füster (USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). Is a collection of souvenir photos extracted from the album of a (fat) couple who participated in one of the classic sightseeing in high-calorie foods paradise.

THAT'S ALL FOLCKS touch-up by Eky Cash (Japan-USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). Playing on the final sentence of Cartoons of Looney Tunes, Eky Cash plays down an elusive final explosion that will sweep away all humanity from the earth.

JUMK MOON touch-up on NASA archive photos by Ron Minard (New York, USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). In the original photos of NASA missions, Minard adds in photo editing, scraps of fast-food objects and symbols of consumerism.

PRIVATE EDEN art installation by Giampaolo Marcantoni (Italy) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). A Nature polluted by CCTV cameras that spy everything. A Private Eden, where nothing is private, where everything is controlled.

GIANT STEP FOR MARKETING touch-up on NASA archive photos by Ron Minard (New York, USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind" pronounced Neil Armstrong descending from Apollo 11. Playing on this sentence Ron Minard makes us guess that in the end, every effort of humanity, rather than by love for knowledge, is driven by the thirst for money from the multinationals.

BEAUTIFUL AS YOU ARE ink on magazine advertisement by Sharifa Dot (Tunisia) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). The advertising pages of magazines, promoting beauty products or accessories to enhance the feminine aesthetic. These, for Sharifa Dot, are the "Burka" that make women segregated in all latitudes of the world.

SITTING WOOD art installation by Giampaolo Marcantoni (Italy) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). A futuristic vision of nature. A future where the trees do not sprout from the ground but will be equipped with chairs, a wooden chair created by the demolition of a tree.

HERE TO HELP YOU touch-up on TV images by George Paul Salle (France-USA) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). "Here to help you" seems romantically mention the words "to protect and serve" that appears on police badges and American on their cars. Sadly the same inscription was also on cars and badges of police officers who have massacred in '91 the young black man Rodney King. The critical sense must be constantly exercised, says George Paul Salle, and it is always good to ask when a gesture of peace does not conceal an act of conquest.

DEAD UNIFORMS military uniforms stuffed with kapok cotton, embroidery and doil. By Goran Branko Vidovic (Bosnia) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). Uniforms emptied body but still full of the soul, not the soldier, but the man who wore it. Every man is different, in spite of what the word "Uniform" want to delete: authenticity.

ONE DAY ON EARTH (Video) [min 4:08] by Giampaolo Marcantoni (Italy) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). One Day on Earth is a video-opera which compares with the eyes of an alien, two different areas of the planet and simulates the perception.

REVIEWS touch-up on museum photos or installation carton steel on marble and plaster by Orion Kostas Xylouris (Greece) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). "Pictures of nude models. Eyes cleared to censor the identity. Because the nude is scandalous!" O.K. Xylouris.

FEEL ALONE touch-up on NASA archive photos by Jon Ekborg (Sweden) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). The work of Jon Ekborg multiplies exponentially star clusters of galaxies and therefore leads to hyperbole the amount of livable possible worlds and their inhabitants. A dense universe of beings alone.

VENUXXX touch-up on museum photos or installation carton steel on marble and plaster by Orion Kostas Xylouris (Greece) for WU+S (wakeupandsleep.org). Real-size replica of the Venus of Milo. Nipples are censored from the classic little stars of the posters of b-movie sex films. An object classic symbol of beauty becomes subject rough and itchy, to highlight the absurdity of the censor act.

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