The Zero Project by Nakahashi Katsushige
Smith College September 10-December 31, 2004
As volunteers we were to slowly puzzle together the 13,000 photographs that would make up a life size replica of an actual Japanese Zero fighter plane. Upon completion of the planes' exhibition, volunteers would carry the the plane to a field to be burned.

Nakahashi Katsushige burning his fighter plane as volunteers stand by to watch, understanding the work that goes into such a prject and how quickly it can be destroyed. This is how the artist helps us to think about the abundance of wealth and resources that go into war machines, the devastation caused by them, and how quickly they destroy and are destroyed.