|Place Made:||Asia: Central Asia, Afghanistan|
|Period:||Early 21st century|
|Date:||2001 - 2007|
|Dimensions:||L 127 cm x W 88 cm|
|Techniques:||Knotted pile; plain woven; fringed|
|Credit:||Gift of Max Allen|
In spite of – or perhaps because of – its brash and discordant colours, this is an astonishing rug. It is like a time-lapse animation, or a video game, showing a missile attacking a helicopter. At the left the missile is launched at the helicopter. It hurtles across the sky and hits the helicopter which explodes in a ball of white flame. The upside down vehicles look like they have been knocked over by the explosion.