“Missing” (incl. oil, plant based polymer, cyanotype, gouache, charcoal)This painting was inspired by a photograph of the Telegraph Column in Damascus, Syria. After the fall of the Assad regime (Dec. 2024), the photos of tens of thousands of missing men, women, and children, were taped to the column. Weather and time have eroded the photos, yet at least 177,021 people still remain missing.This painting, and other works, will be on display at the MedGlobal Conference October 16-17, Chicago.
Sketch from eyewitness photo (incl. #watercolor #gouache).My friend Mazen al-Hamada in Paris (?). Mazen traveled the world, courageously telling and retelling his hellish account of torture and trauma in the Assad regime’s dungeons. He urged, pleaded, with world leaders to free the tens of thousands of Syrian civilians suffering and dying in regime prisons.He was their voice.He still is their voice.He will always be their voice.Thousands are still missing. We must NEVER abandon them!615 days since Mazen’s body was found near Sednaya prison.
Sketch from eyewitness photo (The Independent) #gouache.Since the fall of the #Assad regime, mass graves filled with the remains of men, women, children, tortured to death by #Assad , have been found throughout formerly regime controlled Syria. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians still remain unaccounted for. Meanwhile Assad remains protected in Russia by his brother in mass atrocities, Putin.Love to the Syrian Emergency Task Force for their tireless efforts to bring these war criminals to justice.