887 Caskets

Remembering Iraq war losses
Artist Randolph Sill adjusts one of 887 ceramic caskets he placed on the plaza at the Federal Building in downtown Seattle yesterday in memory of American military personnel killed in the war in Iraq. Sill created the pieces with the aid of Seattle area teens.

from The Seattle TIimes/Seattle Post Intelligencer

This is the same fine artist who is responsible for the following clever prank last August (full story at the link below):

http://www.thestranger.com/2003-09-11/other_news.html
On August 29, Randolph Sill headed to a Mariners game with a homemade sign decked out with slogans written in Japanese kanji, along with the number of Sill's favorite player, Ichiro Suzuki. Whenever Ichiro came up to bat, Sill would hold his sign high. Sill, who's spent time in Japan, knows Japanese television regularly broadcasts Mariners games and spotlights signs for its native son Ichiro.

Here's what Sill's sign said: On one side, the kanji read, "President Bush is a monkey's butt." On the other: "Americans are ashamed of our corrupt president."