Torture with Lego

This is a both unusual and, effective way to make a point:

Flickr user Legofesto (who prefers to remain anonymous) was fed up with news outlets refusing to publish images depicting torture due to their graphic nature. So he recreated the images and first-hand accounts using Legos to protest what he saw as irresponsible censorship.

The juxtaposition of the brightly colored, clean, innocent children’s toy against the complete corruption of the human spirit that torture represents is very powerful.

These images were uploaded to flickr in April 2008. Legofesto has since put up some lego works based on the London G20 meeting earlier this year. good but not as powewrful as the torture imagery, largely because the torture images are largey faithful representations of scenes now indelibly etched on the world’s collective memory.

h/t wired