His studio was flattened, he has had to move his family 10 times, and they now share a house with 25 others. But still Maisara Baroud finds a way to document the fear and destruction he sees all around
‘My reality occupies the white space on paper’ … images from Baroud’s I Am Still Alive, on show at Palazzo Mora, Venice.‘My reality occupies the white space on paper’ … images from Baroud’s I Am Still Alive, on show at Palazzo Mora, Venice., each with its own title and description. I enjoyed doing that.
My lines got sharper and more rigorous with every scene I drew, the black areas consuming the surface of the white paper. The tragedy, in all its detail, was reflected on this paper. The drawings were in the place of a scream and were a call out from the middle of the war demanding a stop to the killing … and that the world notice what is happening in‘We wait for the start of a new day after a long filled with aircraft, rockets and death’ … the sketches on show in Venice.
The university at which I work as a lecturer has disappeared and lies in ashes. The war machine has distorted the features of my small city and the occupation has destroyed all the beautiful things in it; so the things that are fixed in my memory now lie distorted under the rubble.
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