These were all done while I was living and teaching in lahore and karachi, Pakistan. The first is charcoal and conte on newsprint, a young boy chained to a desk in the madrassa because he tried to run away.
The middle piece, inspired by a camel safari I took in the remote area of Baluchistan, is oil stick and chine colle on Arches watercolor paper.
I developed the last piece after a discussion with a teacher friend who is Pakistani American, with arms in both worlds, yet belongng fully to none. Perhaps it is more about me than her, and my feeling torn between the worlds of teaching and making art.
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