| Place | Africa: Somalia |
|---|---|
| Accession Number | ART90101 |
| Collection type | Art |
| Measurement | Overall: 35.9 x 43.2 cm |
| Object type | Work on paper |
| Physical description | pencil on paper |
| Maker |
Gittoes, George Noel |
| Place made | Australia: New South Wales, Sydney, Bundeena |
| Date made | 28 March 1993 |
| Conflict |
Period 1990-1999 Somalia, 1992-1995 |
| Copyright |
Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
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Khats
Description
Depicts the artist on the right, wearing a pair of Night Vision goggles while on patrol with Australian peacekeepers, Delta Company, in Baidoa, Somalia. On the left is an elderly Somalian man chewing a plant leaf. Of this image Gittoes wrote; 'I tried the Night Vision goggles again tonight...they turn the night into a greenish monochrome where people appear like moving negative film. It resembles early fuzzy television. People through the goggles lose their humanity - becoming like synthetic computer constructs...In the Khat market and streets the Somali men are out of their heads from chewing their narcotic plants'.