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were painted atop trucks and walls all over the city. Models of the missile were displayed as sculptures across town. David referred to his latest work as a continuation of an enduring enquiry and celebration of
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and displayed in public places similar to the missiles. The 'Teddy's Bears' reference both their origin in
American political history and their connotation of the restraint of power and the toys of a war child; this in the context of the American and Western powers interventions in Afghanistan over
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Over the years, Alesworth has examined the conventions and visual codes of
Pakistani society and of urban life in particular. His exhibits have displayed a wide range of formal influences from contemporary mass culture to the purism of late Constructivism. Many of these themes were evident in his
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than of the urban garden, but that too. He has visited the
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of 2011 amongst others. He takes the garden as his key metaphor with which to probe humanity's culturally specific relationships with the natural world and toward understanding nature more as a social problem.
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