Some select pages from my sketchbook: scenes around campus, a cafe, the zoo.

Lineage, I-IV, graphite on paper, 2007
Portraits of Israeli Prime Ministers
from top: Ben-Gurion, Sharett, Eshkol, Meir

Qana, graphite on paper, 30 July 2006
Gaza picnic, graphite and watercolor on paper, 2006

These two pieces will be displayed in the upcoming exhibition:
Do Not Forget Lebanon, Opened 12 January 2007 at The Freedom Theatre, Jenin, Palestinian Territories

The exhibition will be travelling on to Stockholm, Sweden. Proceeds from the exhibition will go towards helping the children of Jenin and The Freedom Theatre - "an independent, dynamic, community-based center which encourages normal childhood by targeting behavior, knowledge concepts and practices."

Ordnance: 72 hours, cut vinyl installation, 2006

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Damocles: manifest destiny, razor wire installation, 2006



Images from the
4+4 Exhibition
12 - 26 October 2006
The Manu Chhabria Gallery
Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre
Dubai, UAE
www.ductac.org

Ordnance is comprised of 100 cluster bomb silhouettes, in direct reference to the recent war on Lebanon. The UN estimates that nearly one million of these bombs were dropped by Israel during the war, the majority of which were dropped in the last 72 hours.

Damocles is a series of Arabesque patterns comprised of razor wire, and relates to the flagrant use of the material in keeping Palestinians from their lands in the West Bank and Gaza. It also alludes to the negative portrayal of Islam in the West.

cluster bomb, conte on paper, 2006

"No-one knows just how much unexploded ordnance there is in southern Lebanon.

Estimates range from tens to hundreds of thousands of unexploded cluster bomblets and submunitions. The UN warns it may take two years to clear them. ...The devices tend to be small in size, so often remain undetected until it's too late."
Source: BBC

More from BBC and Human Rights Watch on cluster bombs dropped on Lebanon, the majority of which were dropped by Israel in the last 72 hours of the war, after the upcoming cease-fire had been declared.

Jenin: Mortuary, linoleum print on paper 2005
Jenin: Untitled, linoleum print on paper 2005
Jenin: Ambulances, linoleum print on paper 2005

It has been nearly 18 months since the Jenin imPrints series was first exhibited in Bethlehem. The prints, images of the 2002 incursion into the West Bank city of Jenin, have taken on a life of their own, and thanks to Ms. Elisabeth Gagneur (L'Auberge des Arts) and Yves and Claire Orly (Color Gang Edition), they have been shown in Givors, France, as well as various other venues in the Lyon area.

Jenin imPrints was published as a book by Color Gang Edition in February, 2006, with text by Lebanese poet Etel Adnan, and is available directly (ISBN: 2-915107-20-3):

Color Gang Edition
28 rue Jean Ligonnet
69700 Givors
France
Tel: 04 72 24 09 69
Fax: 04 72 24 02 01
color.gang@wanadoo.fr

Qana, 30 July 2006
graphite on paper

In its 2006 war on Lebanon, Israel bombed and killed over 50 civilians that were taking shelter in the lower floor of a building. Thirty-four of them were children.

...more about Qana