Around this time in 2003, the Iraq War began. The city of Baghdad was bombed and set to flames, and the USA and its allies attacked in the hope of finding "weapons of mass destruction" and the dictator Saddam Hussein. This drawing, done from memory and magazine photos, depicts the recently built Mosque of Al-Qura, with the smoke and flames from the city in the background. This was 16 years ago, and although the active phase of the war is paused, a seemingly endless struggle to impose order on the Middle East continues. I will never forget the night the war started, as we watched on television as fire and destruction poured down on the faraway city.
Black tech pen on sketchbook page, 4" x 4 1/2", March 26, 2003.
And to anyone still reading this, a happy Spring Equinox and happy NoRuz, Persian new year.
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