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despair not, spare your enemies not, for god is with us, 2024
aluminium- (background), gold- (jp coen and f35) and silverpoint
and coloured pencil on prepared paper, 45×55 cm
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tell me the name of your wound, 2024
(title taken from a poem by mahmoud darwish)
silverpoint and coloured pencil on prepared paper, 45×55 cm
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metalpoint: 999 silver, aluminium; and coloured pencil on prepared paper, 71,5×100 cm
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left:
if i were to become hungry, i shall eat the flesh of my usurper, 2024
metalpoint: 999 silver, 24k gold; and coloured pencil on prepared paper, 5″ x 7″
right:
I will carry you; a stranger is brother to a stranger, 2024
metalpoint: 999 silver, 24k gold; and coloured pencil on prepared paper, 5″ x 7″
both:
For Exhibition Odetta Gallery – Postcards to Venice 2024
titles taken from poems by Mahmoud Darwish
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metalpoint: 24k gold (the cruise ship), 999 silver, aluminium; and coloured pencil on prepared paper, 50×70 cm
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metalpoint (silver, aluminium) on prepared paper, 40×30 cm
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metalpoint (silver, aluminium) and coloured pencil on prepared paper, 100x73cm
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metalpoint (silver, aluminium) and coloured pencil on prepared paper, 48×35 cm