Unaccompanied

12” x 9”, oil on canvas

This was the first portrait I completed in the series We Dream of a World Not Threatened by Destruction. It depicts a displaced child whose photograph was published by Al-Jazeera News, in an article from February reporting over 17,000 children separated from their parents in the Gaza Strip. It dried with grass stuck to its surface, a reminder that it was painted in public demonstration as Passover, season of liberation, began and three hundred and fifty Palestinians were found in a mass grave behind al-Shifa hospital.

Proceeds will benefit Ahmed Abuzanoona’s family of nine, including two young children and a newborn baby.