Feizal Valli

Feizal Valli is an artist who relocated to Birmingham from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He created an installation entitled "Mission Accomplished" in the 22-foot-long front window of his ground floor apartment in the Pheonix Lofts at 1710 2nd Avenue North. "Mission Accomplished" is composed of toy soldiers -- one for each casualty among U.S. soldiers in Iraq. A small label, reading "Mission Accomplished" locates the point in the death toll at which President Bush declared victory from the flight deck of the USS Lincoln on May 1, 2003.

References

• Short, Dale (June 29, 2006) "Toy Soldiers: Window installation shows the casualties of war one life at a time." Birmingham Weekly.
• Short, Dale (June 8, 2006) "Art on the battlefield". Interview with Faizal Valli.

External link

• Photo of Valli with "Mission Accomplished" on Flickr.com