Minesweeper is a game program that was included in Microsoft’s first entertainment package during the 90s to help acclimate people around the concept of the mouse controller. Left-click to reveal, right-click to flag. In isolation, the game was a harmless repetitive tool to an action/motion that was set to become inseparable from everyday life. However, the name “minesweeper” has been a target of controversy as real mines had/ have continuously affected millions of people’s lives, thus, subsequently changing its meaning.

+93 Minesweeper is a retrofitted version of the game wherein, instead of further separating these concepts of “game” and “reality”, it binds them closer together. In February 2020, the Trump administration negotiated a withdrawal agreement with the Taliban that excluded the Afghan government, freed 5,000 Taliban soldiers, and set the date of final withdrawal to May 1st, 2021, from Afghanistan soil. The USA occupied Afghanistan for over 20 years, preventing Taliban control. The sudden withdrawal/absence of authority and structure has left the country in much peril.

The traces of weaponization continues to remain in Afghanistan through the present crisis but also through mines and cluster munition still buried and unnoticed. With the publicly accessible data, +93 Minesweeper integrated into its code, actual contamination points of remaining undetonated munitions as of March 2008 in Afghanistan, Kabul. By imposing a grid and scaling the landscape into the surface of a game mat, the project acclimates, teaches through repetition (left-click & right-click), us as individuals that are unbothered and removed, to a glimpse of the reality that has become inseparable to some people's everyday lives.