The artist uses multiple gradients of blue to represent the goodness (from ordinary local residents helping each other) that persisted throughout the occupation and liberation. The painting leaves a lot of reflective space within the canvas to show the voids left by destruction within the city.
The artist uses heavily stylised visual devices, dividing the canvas into three – the open sky with barely any activity, the middle ground with Daesh weapons, international bombardment during liberation, and widescale destruction raining down upon the third section filled with the mask-like faces of…
Maslawi women were the biggest victims under Daesh-occupied Mosul. This exquisite veiled woman evokes a sadness and wistfulness in the viewer. In the lower left and the centre of the painting sits the hamsa hand – a symbol shaped as a hand palm with five…
This evocative painting depicts of a group of women fleeing Mosul during the occupation of the city under Daesh. The expressions on their faces show a mixture of grief, despair, anger, isolation and fear. The painting depicts women dressed in what appears to be rag-doll…
