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Daniel A. Heyman

I Am Ready

2005

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Daniel A. Heyman

I Am Ready

2005

Physical Qualities Watercolor and graphite on paper, Sheet: 385 x 575 mm. (15 3/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Women's Committee Acquisitions Endowment for Contemporary Prints and Photographs
Object Number 2006.86
Depicts a former Iraqi detainee from Abu Ghraib Prison and text from his testimony given during an interview in August 2006.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2006; from the artist

Inscribed: upper left in watercolor: "ONE NIGHT THEY BROUGHT IN / A DETAINEE. TIED UP, THEY CALLED / TO ME, "DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?" / AND THEY PUSHED UP HIS HEAD, & / HE WAS MY BROTHER. THEY SAID / IF i DID NOT COOPERATE THEY WOULD / BRING MY MOTHER. THEY / BEAT MY BROTHER IN FRONT / OF MY ElDER BROTHER. / ONE DAY I SAW A. the prisoner / RIGHT ACROSS FROM ME - TIED UPSIDE / DOWN. HANGING BY HIS FEET"; lower left in watercolor: ""I AM READY" / ISTANBUL AUGUST 19 2006"

Artist

Daniel A. Heyman

1962–2000

American, born 1963
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