MEDIA ROOTS- Mark Dotzler is an American born sculpture artist who has exhibited with professors from Washington University’s Sam Fox School of Art and has site-specific artwork in the The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. Although Mark had known for years that the events of 9/11 weren’t properly investigated by the US government or corporate controlled media, he only turned his creative attention to 9/11 after becoming increasingly concerned about the level of self-censorship and blanket demonization of those simply asking questions. 

Prior to 9/11, Mark Dotzler spent years learning about the properties and technical behavior of metals while working in high-end custom metal fabrication under a master-craftsman. Coming from such a deep understanding of the characteristics of metal, he had problems reconciling the government’s narrative on the three WTC towers’ destruction. Dotzler’s 9/11 artwork reflects the discrepancies between his findings and the government’s official explanation.

“The Split”, mixed media, 2010

The Split is a simple yet effective piece that addresses the collapse of WTC Building 7, a building that fell into its own footprint yet was not struck by a plane at 5:20 that day. According to Mark, “The Split” chiefly refers to the split in the seam of reality that occurred on 9/11. Note: the blue iPod screen with the “2″ is running a countdown timer program. 

“ll”, mixed media, 2011

Mark created the piece “ll” for the historic Toronto Hearings, a series of international, independent hearings on the events of September 11. “ll” is a minimal representation of the twin towers using 6′ high stacks of documents. The piles of paperwork represent the voluminous amount of hard evidence that has been collected by highly accredited scientists and researchers from around the world that directly contradict the official government narrative of the attacks. The document stacks resemble the number “11” as well as the twin towers, symbolizing the Toronto “Eleven” Hearings.

Learn more about Mark Dotzler and see more of his artwork at http://www.markdotzler.com, find out more about the Toronto Hearings at http://torontohearings.org/

To Every Seed His Own Body

Detail from Carrion Call

Still Life After Death (Fox)

BIO– British artist Polly Morgan’s love for animals and desire to preserve them led her to learn taxidermy. Since then she has gravitated towards making still lives with the animals as subjects. Her intention has never been to mimic the natural habitats of animals, but to place them in less expected scenery. The scale and settings are often unnatural, but the animals are never anthropomorphized. Seeing the out of place encourages us to look at them as if for the first time and appreciate their beauty.

Check out more of her bizarre and thought provoking animal displays at http://www.pollymorgan.co.uk/

MEDIA ROOTS- Mark Jenkins’s work with inserting the human form into settings that are jarring and unsettling- like digging through a garbage can, dead face down in a riverbank, or a suicidal girl atop a billboard,  calls into question the relationship human beings have with each other in big cities. Hundreds of people walk busily by his displays and don’t give them a second look. What does that say about our society? Nonetheless, his art is extremely provocative and fun to follow.

Winston-Salem, NC

Prato, Italy

Washington, DC

Malmö, Sweden

 Check out more at http://www.xmarkjenkinsx.com/