Execution plaza

This was painted by Iraqi artist Muayad Muhsin, and is called "Execution plaza." Doubtless it will not be as celebrated or villified as his picture of Donald Rumsfeld, but I find it a much more beautiful and tragic image. The blindfolded woman, literally petrified, is meant to represent Iraq. The way her body turns one way, and her head the other, captures the contorted fate of that country viscerally.