Gaza 2023-2, Now Alone

Tea-wash, watercolour, gold ink & black ink on wasli paper, 21.6 x 14.7 cm, 400 USD
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In this second painting, children are mostly gone, while Gaza waits for a ceasefire. This last figure is confined in the oval with no way to escape her fate—the only “one” left out of a family of many. Without friends or loved ones, poppies surround her. The windows are still there, but no one in this world has the bravery to take advantage of these openings to save Gaza. The survivor looks towards the moon hoping for help—as if praying to God—but red (death) continues to fall from the sky. The surrounding world is still beautiful, thriving. It still hides the “weapons of mass destruction,” but fails to acknowledge what it’s doing to these people.

Like the first work in this series, I’ve used tea-wash, some colour, and mostly black ink to create the oval. I also included some Arabic phrases again. Olives and poppies are symbols of Palestine.