Afghan Flower
Mesmerized, there was this sudden desire in me to draw this beautiful image. Though I can never mimic the original photograph I knew I would have to re-create it my way. This portrait happened right after I chanced upon a soul-stirring photo of an Afghan man smelling a red rose.
The rose seems to symbolize the beauty of what was once before. The act itself is as if in remembrance of family and friends lost in a war that has ravaged Afghanistan for so long that no one remembers the true cause of the war.
I am deeply saddened that many of those who have died because of the war are civilians, innocent children with their mothers while their sons and husbands go out to fight a war they don't understand.
"What the Afghans all had in common was bereavement and loss, losses so terrible that we had stopped asking questions about family or spouses or children.
The answers, we had learned, were painful to give and painful to hear."
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