MORE CARNAGE FEATURED: ADAM STRANGE - “BIRD WATCHING IN GAZA”
Some artworks don’t ask for interpretation; they simply arrive like a wound. Bird Watching in Gaza is one of them—a piece that doesn’t narrate devastation but bleeds it, literally, symbolically, unapologetically.
The first encounter is disorienting: a giant fist suspended above a nest of starving chicks, its knuckles clenched, its skin split open, leaking blood that morphs mid-air into falling bombs. Below, the hatchlings stretch their necks, mouths agape—not in innocence, but in desperation. They are hungry for survival, hungry for anything. Even destruction becomes sustenance.
Around this grim tableau, the world fractures. Dead branches contort like broken limbs, flags disintegrate, debris scatters like shrapnel caught mid-detonation. Nothing is stable. Nothing is whole. The entire composition feels like a universe captured at the moment of moral collapse.
Strange’s image is a visual indictment without needing a single sentence. He gives us no heroes, no framing device, no sanitized commentary. Just the raw, unbearable collision of innocence and annihilation. The artwork performs what MORE CARNAGE exists to uphold: the refusal to look away, the courage to say the quiet part grotesquely loud.
We selected this piece because it is not metaphorical—it is a mirror, angled toward global spectatorship. It confronts the viewer with a question that no one wants to answer honestly: When the world burns, who is the predator, and who is simply hungry?
Bird Watching in Gaza risks discomfort, disgust, political tension. And yet, it is an image that feels morally necessary—a requiem without music, a protest without slogans, a reminder that some truths are not poetic, only unbearable.
ABOUT ADAM STRANGE
Adam Strange is a re-emerging Canadian artist who creates digital photomontage works at the intersection between analogue painting, collage and film techniques, with twenty-first century digital tools and resources to create contemporary artefacts. Adam’s approach to "art as a weapon" for social or political change includes recontextualizing fragments of photos, sutured with the juxtaposition of internal realities, chance and accident, to reveal global expressions and reflections of humanity. Adam creates his art for your pleasure or desolation, seeking the essentia, reflecting the under-current and offering no respite from the illogics of the outside world.
WEBSITE: www.adamstrange.net
