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Michael Murphy (Perceptual Art) is an American artist who lives and works in Brooklyn. Up close Murphy’s perspective sculptures look chaotic, yet the three-dimensional compositions reveal perfectly ordered images when viewed from a particular point of view. The Immigrant (2019) was part of his Perceptual Shift Series. 2,300 wood balls were suspended by wire to form an image of Murphy’s wife Natasha. This tribute was intended to introduce positivity into a negative and overly politicised conversa

It was late June of 2005 in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan, and four outnumbered US Navy SEALs were pinned down, low on ammunition, and without high ground advantage. As the seconds turned into minutes and the minutes into hours, the escape options began to run out. Over 100 insurgents had steadily cornered them, and more enemy combatants were on their way. Team Leader Michael Murphy realized that the only hope for survival was to call in a Quick Reaction Force, and in a heroic move, he left