Creation is not only for artists. Students who are discovering their voices to call for a ceasefire in Gaza are, collectively, creating a moment in history. Those opposing it will apply the same silencing, disparaging comments, and threats, as they have to artists who have challenged doctrine for millennia.

Artists paint especially when there are no words left…

Deeply grateful to editors of The Australian Fabian Review # 6, 2024 for featuring my four 2010 paintings & extract from my blog post last year about the provenance of wars in Gaza. Their cover art is very clear: “Stop Killing Children”.

I urge you to take a break from people who don't allow you to grieve, and it's ok to tunnel vision for a short while, but leave the door to your tunnel ajar, for all our survival depends on that tiny sliver of hope, of light we allow, like a thread to keep us from getting lost in the forrest.

On this tragic, painful week for both innocent Israeli victims of the Hamas attacks and innocent Palestinian civilian families suffering in Israel’s bombings and water, electricity, medicine and food siege of Gaza, I am reposting some paintings I did around 2009/10 after the Gaza War of 2008-9…and nearly fifteen years later, they have lost none of their meaning for me.

I have art in the LGBT Literature Issue of Phati'tude Magazine in New York City. These poets, they really inspire me.