Using footage of the wall being built by Israelis around the West bank, The Wall is an installation that calls into question the underlying reasons for the divisions we make and the relation between PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and cycles of violence.   The work should be shown with four projectors showing the video component on each of four walls on a loop. The effect is to make the viewer feel enclosed and surrounded by the wall.   The first part of the audio features an adult's voice doctored to sound like a child reading a poem called "The Wall" which defends the rationale for locking out our enemies and suggests that the creation of "the other" begins from childhood. The second part of the audio features the psychiatrist and trauma specialist Mark Brayne discussing the ways in which individual trauma manifests itself on a national level.   Brayne suggests unprocessed trauma is the missing puzzle piece in understanding the ways in which the abused become the abusers.  

It's controversial to approach both the Israelis and the 'terrorists' with sympathy, but as Mark Brayne exposes in the interview, the violence on both sides stems from the abuse they've endured.   To engage empapthy, it was useful to work with a broad range of content and styles; ranging from childlike poems to psychological paradigms, from documentary style interview, into radical artistic interpretations.   The two audio tracks are purposefully very different in style in order to engage first the emotions then the intellect of the listener.