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Hatice

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“…truth can only be meaningful when it serves justice…” – Hatice Cengiz

The Crown Prince will not be punished, says the Biden administration. 

Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi left behind his fiancé Hatice Cengiz when he was murdered by Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s hit team. 

Our relationship w Saudi Arabia is too important, Biden claims.

The “prince” silenced one of his most vocal critics as Khashoggi’s fiancé waited outside the Saudi embassy for him to get the necessary paperwork for their marriage. She waited outside for 12 hours while they coagulated his blood to reduce the mess of his dismemberment. They held a massive bbq the night they cremated him in an underground oven to hide the smell.

After the Biden administration released a report that held the Crown Prince responsible and then Biden declared that he would not be sanctioned, Hatice Cengiz stated,  “The truth – that was already known – has been revealed one more time, and is now confirmed. Yet this is not enough, since the truth can only be meaningful when it serves justice being achieved.” 

Today, truth feels meaningless.

https://thedissident.com/

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Einstein

Einstein

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My first serious woodburn, creating this helped me recognize that woodburning slows me down – no space for worry or anxiety when concentrating so hard on something that comes about so slowly. I burned this piece for a devout Christian – I asked him to name for me someone he admires; I totally expected him to name a saint or some other biblical inspiration. Nope, Einstein, which further piqued my curiosity about where religion and science overlap. At the time of this piece, I was just diving into religious studies, and was (and still am) fascinated by Einstein’s agnostic views.

Icon

Icon

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Continuing my study of how to create softness and details with a medium that’s so much less soft and versatile than pencil and paper, I lifted this image from the famous National Geographic depiction of Afghan refugee Sgarbat Gula from 1985, when she was just 12 years old. Thirty years after the picture was taken, she was finally given a permanent home in Afghanistan.

Batik Study

Batik Study

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This composition is totally ripped off from an Amnesty International poster – it was meant to be a study in how to use natural pigments (coffee) to create color. Much lighter from its original look, at least the smell of stale coffee has faded with the colors.

End of the World

End of the World

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Modeled after the (award winning) photograph of the same name by Dorothy Leland, this portrait was more a study of how to create depth and detail on a grainy surface – do I use the grains or ignore them? (Some of each, it turns out). After Dorothy won an award for the photograph named “End of the World”, the community where this was taken was completely leveled in the 7.5 Thai Earthquake of 2018, making the title overwhelmingly eerie. Who knows if this spot exists today?