The Hellfire Story

This is the catalogue to the solo exhibit of Kenny Cole's "The Hellfire Story" shown at Space Gallery in Portland, Maine in November of 2010. It is the story of the Hellfire Missile system as told in a series of drawings by artist Kenny Cole, using hand drawn text copied from 125 expressionless milestones listed on an Army website chronicling decades of development from early laser research in the sixties to full blown deployment in the nineties. The story continues into the larger exhibition space with 175 hanging two-sided placards that chronicle the use of the Hellfire Missile as the weapon of choice for drone attacks in Pakistan since 2004. On one side are the attack stats and on the other biblical text.