Hamlin, Janet - short clip - SketchingGuantanamo
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- | There are a lot of elements inside the courtroom | 0:02 |
that they don't want sketched are drawn, | 0:05 | |
whether they're the soldiers, | 0:09 | |
the troops lining the, you know, | 0:11 | |
security detail and any kind of exit. | 0:12 | |
And certain translators, or people like that, | 0:17 | |
can opt out on having their features drawn. | 0:20 | |
But at the time, it was expressly forbidden | 0:23 | |
to draw Omar Khadr or anybody else who was a detainee. | 0:26 | |
And every sketch that I do | 0:33 | |
has to be reviewed by the security officer, | 0:35 | |
who's the same fellow that can now | 0:38 | |
currently censor any kind of verbal exchange. | 0:41 | |
He can press a button and white out what we hear. | 0:46 | |
And he has, occasionally, | 0:49 | |
whoever is the security officer at the time, | 0:50 | |
has asked me to erase | 0:53 | |
Interviewer | Why? | 0:55 |
- | Or smudge out. | 0:56 |
They might feel that I've put in, | 0:57 | |
you know, in Omar's face, | 1:00 | |
you know, maybe I put | 1:02 | |
like a socket or an indication of a shadow, | 1:03 | |
so it wasn't just blank. | 1:05 | |
And he'd say, you know, "Smudge that out more". | 1:08 | |
With the limitations of what I can draw, | 1:11 | |
the biggest tell is body language. | 1:13 | |
What are people doing? | 1:16 | |
How are they positioned? | 1:17 | |
What are they gesturing or holding up? | 1:18 | |
Where are they seated? | 1:22 | |
You know, there's symbolism a lot | 1:24 | |
with the 911 accused. | 1:28 | |
Khalid Sheikh is in the front | 1:31 | |
because it's his accusations | 1:32 | |
and charges are of the highest order, | 1:35 | |
and then the five sit based kind of on that. | 1:38 |
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