gaza math

Title: gaza math
Assemblage: sign board, colored marker pens, oil pastels, baby shoe, plexiglass
H 62" x W 22" x D 3"
(2011 - 2013)

1 home
9 prayer mats
1 prayer
1 father/husband
2 jobs
1 wife/mother
1 cancer
0 wife/mother
2 sons
6 daughters
2 israeli tank shells
3 daughters dismembered
21 years Bessan
15 years Mayar
13 years Ayah
1 niece dismembered
17 years Nour
1 blood charred notebook
1 brain splattered ceiling
x algebraic body parts
6 months
5 funerals
0 running water
11 shattered dreams
1 reality
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= 1 government response
      “collateral damage”

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This work of art was inspired by the book "I Shall Not Hate" by Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish.

Poem "gaza math" by F. Geoffrey Johnson, first published in Reverie: Midwest African American Literature, 2011 Edition, Volume 5, Aquarius Press