Carl Emanuel Mark
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This image is a summary of the entire mission, which the Swedish General Hospital carried out. We see here a number of symbols whose mutual relationships apparently can be considered contradictory. The entrance to the tent leading to a Swedish field hospital which is intended for war in a Sweden with one of the country specific conditions. The signature of the hospital is the Red Cross, a universal symbol of the West which stands for humanity. The boots symbolize the military affiliation. Business is conducted on a basis of desert sand, which is completely different from the environment to which it was originally intended.Över everything lit Crescent - the Red Crescent Society: which also is a sign of humanity settled in the Muslim world.
Violence - nonviolence, west - east, north - south, military - civilian, cold-heat; Christian - Muslim, red cross - red crescent all a collection of apparent paradoxes form the basic building blocks in a symbiotic whole process has resulted in humanitarian activities demonstrated and summed up in a Swedish field hospital.
Viewers can see that the Red Crescent is facing the wrong direction. This is not an artistic intent, but nonetheless revealing. It shows how easy it is to commit mistakes when approaching a culture to which it has not itself belongs to.
The picture can be found in the book "Desert BLUES a book about the Swedish General Hospital in Saudi Arabia (1991 Niklas Ekdal and Jonas Ekströmer).
This image is a summary of the entire mission, which the Swedish General Hospital carried out. We see here a number of symbols whose mutual relationships apparently can be considered contradictory. The entrance to the tent leading to a Swedish field hospital which is intended for war in a Sweden with one of the country specific conditions. The signature of the hospital is the Red Cross, a universal symbol of the West which stands for humanity. The boots symbolize the military affiliation. Business is conducted on a basis of desert sand, which is completely different from the environment to which it was originally intended.Över everything lit Crescent - the Red Crescent Society: which also is a sign of humanity settled in the Muslim world.
Violence - nonviolence, west - east, north - south, military - civilian, cold-heat; Christian - Muslim, red cross - red crescent all a collection of apparent paradoxes form the basic building blocks in a symbiotic whole process has resulted in humanitarian activities demonstrated and summed up in a Swedish field hospital.
Viewers can see that the Red Crescent is facing the wrong direction. This is not an artistic intent, but nonetheless revealing. It shows how easy it is to commit mistakes when approaching a culture to which it has not itself belongs to.
The picture can be found in the book "Desert BLUES a book about the Swedish General Hospital in Saudi Arabia (1991 Niklas Ekdal and Jonas Ekströmer).
