Residential Block - 2024
Gaza Hello 2012
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The stifling siege on Gaza cuts off all means of life. Fuel entering the blockaded Strip is vital to allowing life to go on, especially as it makes generating electricity possible. With only limited quantities of fuel allowed to enter, electricity has been cut off for long hours at a time, during which the residents of the Gaza Strip live in suffocating darkness.
This has been the case for decades, even before this 2023 genocidal war that has now added another dimension of calamity. Not satisfied with cutting Gaza off from the rest of the world physically, the Occupation war machine is working to isolate Palestinians in Gaza metaphysically. It is doing so by targeting the telecommunications network to sever the last remaining thread between us and our people in Gaza.
Orange Hue
A small child looking out the window says:
Oh my God,
how beautiful is the sky
when it turns orange?!
Why do you blush at night?
Is it shyness?
It’s horror, my child.
A man of sixty-four years old answered,
It is bloody murder.
It is iron in the sky,
Not taking into account you or me,
takes its frustrations out on us,
then retreats.
We monitor it.
How does it do it?
How does it mix red and yellow
to unleash upon us orange that:
Kills children,
women and men,
You
and
me.
Gaza Hello, Acrylic on Canvas, 60X60 cm each, 6 peces, 2012
Rafat Asad
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