In March Veronica Peek of Melbourne, Australia wrote warrug.com to inform us that the image in rug above (and others like it) is the Malabar Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, on Victoria Street in Singapore. It appears the image is not the Flinder’s Street Train Station in Melbourne, AU as Max Allen suggested, nor the Sultan Hussein Shrine as I suggested. Yesterday, RN wrote with the same assertion.

My primary goal in founding warrug.com was to create exactly this sort of dialogue. So, although I stand corrected, I appreciate the dialogue tremendously. Please keep the corrections coming…

“The contrast of the super-old with the contemporary was just awesome to me,” Sudeith said.
After getting bachelor’s and master’s degrees in art, he taught himself to grind, chisel and paint the rock he’s working on, and he invented his own technique.
“I like making a durable document of art and documenting our contemporary technology,” Sudeith said.

What: Contemporary petroglyphs (rock carvings)
Who: New York artist Kevin Sudeith
When: Saturday April 30 and Sunday May 1, from 10:00am to 8:00pm
Where: 1959 San Antonio Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707

More space petroglyphs are at Petroglyphist.com.

Besides Chandra in Montana there are two tractors (one with seeder drill), three pickups (pictographs), a water truck, an antelope (one was shot on the land while I was there), a double portrait of the original Czech homesteaders, and a cowboy with two cows.

Here is a story about US Government efforts to build a sustainable rug weaving industry in Afghanistan.

The rug in the photo was shown at Denison University in Ohio, and it will be on display at a show at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan in September and October. It is also the invitation post card image. This pattern turned into Soviet Exodus rugs which turned into WTC rugs and Tora Bora rugs.