This Is Post Post-Modern

Scott Olsen With the ongoing Occupy protests, I figured I would be able to find what I was looking for and I did. I was finding all kinds of images of police arresting and forcefully dragging people away. And then, I found what I thought would be the focus of my response, the Scott Olsen incident.

Scott Olsen an Iraq War veteran who was protesting at Occupy Oakland, he was shot in the head with a tear gas canister by the riot police trying to disburse a crowd. The shot to the head fractured his skull and when others moved in to help the injured Olsen they were hit with a stun grenade. After the incident pictures of Olsen’s bloody head were massively released through the media and internet. He became one of the first icons for the Occupy movement. I then experimented with the picture in a Warholesque way. The result was desensitizing.