Canvas, rocks, sand, biro, Lazertran. 5' x 3'
Naila discovered that stoning women to death for adultery is still practiced in rural communities in certain parts of the world. This plaintive work is in response to that. When a woman is convicted, the man is given 50 lashes; a hole is dug and the woman put into it so that only her head is visible above the ground. The whole village gathers around and hurls rocks at her head until she is dead. Sharia law says that the rocks cannot be too small or she will not die. They cannot be too big or she will die too quickly. They need to be just the right size to cause a long and agonising death. These chilling words have been transferred onto rocks using water-slip transfer paper and placed around a hole in the ground. Drawings of women who have met this fate have been made in ballpoint pen on rocks, also surrounding the hole. The photographs show a sample of the rocks and the entire installation.
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