A gladiator in Lebanon - the war between Israel and the Hizballa organization in Lebanon is a bloody one. Many in Israel today ask whether it is worth to guard the Israeli border with Lebanon, where the Hizballa places explosive devices and strikes at the IDF, or maybe we should withdraw to within our borders and protect the country from there. IDF means Israeli Defense Forces.

The final creation was done during the days that my younger brother was a soldier in Lebanon. At first stage I used a photo of a mother and child - they were my Mary and Jesus, and I adorned them with halos.

The second stage was a photo I took of my brother when he was debating with my mother whether to continue and serve in that terrible place. On his shoulder one can see the strap of his rifle.

Here I used the computer to add a sort of fire-core or a bone fire, or maybe I turned them into demons - angry, mad, not looking in the eye. I added the long nose to my brother, because I saw him as Cirano de Berjerak - the officer that was in love and full of magic words.

Still, it could be Pinocchio, the wooden puppet (a well-oiled segment of the machine) to whom life was granted and then it is sent to die for its life.

The third photo was taken in the coliseum in Rome, where gladiator fights took place. I took a photo of my young sister hanged on a cross with blood streaming in her hands, set against the background of this terrible place that was the TV netcreation with the hit show of two thousand years ago.

This photo was added to the two previous ones, after the TV broadcast pictures that were taken by the Hizballa, while detonating an explosive charge which was used to ambush IDF soldiers.

This media exposure of what happens in Lebanon showed the scene of gladiators fighting the wind. The media dismayed me with innovations that are used to subject freedom and art to a world culture which is based on wars.