Recent Collage
Today, And Every Day (Gaza) is a response to the ongoing suffering of the Palestinian people, a history marked by displacement, occupation, oppression, and the persistent denial of fundamental rights. While the work was created in reaction to the genocide in Gaza following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, it recognizes that Palestinian suffering neither began with those events nor has been confined to their aftermath. Rather, the extraordinary escalation of violence, destruction, and loss of life represents a devastating intensification of conditions that have persisted for generations.
Two human skulls dominate the foreground of a devastated urban landscape. Their presence is both intimate and universal, confronting the viewer with the ultimate consequence of violence while suggesting the countless individual lives obscured by the scale of collective tragedy. The ruined buildings and deserted streets evoke not only physical destruction but also the erasure of communities, histories, and the ordinary rhythms of daily life. The juxtaposition collapses the distance between individual mortality and the broader devastation of a people.
The work is intended as an expression of empathy and an act of bearing witness, rather than an attempt to simplify a profoundly complex and divisive political history. It asks that Palestinian suffering be recognized as a human reality, not merely as a consequence of competing political narratives. The skulls offer no indication of nationality, religion, or allegiance. Their anonymity becomes a reminder of our shared mortality and the fundamental humanity that political conflict so often obscures.
Ultimately, Today, And Every Day (Gaza) is both a tribute and a lament. Its title speaks to the continuity of suffering, before and after October 7, and to the troubling ease with which prolonged injustice becomes normalized. What may appear to the outside world as a succession of isolated crises is, for those enduring it, an ongoing condition of existence. The work challenges the indifference that accompanies the relentless visibility of violence and insists upon the moral necessity of bearing witness, particularly when suffering has become so familiar that the world risks no longer seeing it.