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Aral

By  Bruce Allan 2012
Words: Soviet slogan Images: Courtesy Earth Observatory NASA above: Aral Sea 1989 below: Aral Sea 2008 The works Aral and RIPPLE reflect the cause and effect on the Aral Sea of the draining and canalization of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers principally to enable the growing of cotton in Uzbekistan. BA Tbilisi 2.10.2012 exhibited at Artisterium 5 'The Protest That Never Ends'
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Mayakovsky and Lili, Variations on a photograph censored by Soviet authority circa 1918

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