For 88 DAYS in 2008, headline images from three on-line newspapers, THE NEW YORK TIMES- USA, THE GULF NEWS- Dubai, U.A.E and EL MUNDO- SPAIN, were collaged together with a fourth image taken at random. The random image often was a distraction from "real news" though was usually given central importance within the news site.

The project began, on a whim, from an interest I developed in the idea of palimpsests - where a manuscript, is written on more than once. Earlier layers are erased incompletely and remain legible so the object becomes a reflection of its history. I approached this project using a similar process. I was curious to see the layering effects of world headlines - how erasing or diluting parts while highlighting others affects visual context - how information from one side of the globe affects the other - how the distribution of "big news" in one culture is weighted by the others - what visuals are chosen to depict "news".

I began the project when the world had come together for the Olympics in China and ended ten days after the election of Barak Obama. It seemed when the world exhaled, the project was finished.ee the layering effects of world headlines - how erasing or diluting parts while highlighting others affects visual context - how information from one side of the globe affects the other - how the distribution of "big news" in one culture is weighted by the others - what visuals are chosen to depict "news".

I began the project when the world had come together for the Olympics in China and ended ten days after the election of Barak Obama. It seemed when the world exhaled, the project was finished.