Even the most brilliant photography cannot capture the landscape of genocide... This room is empty, though it is full.
It has been emptied thus, not by the misfortune of disease or disaster,
but by the hatred of other people.”
Fergal Keane, BBC
"Low Tide" 22x24 Acrylic and Oil on canvas
"Can't Lose What you Never Had" 18x38 Acrylic and Oil on canvas
"I found similarities among the genocides in Rwanda, Darfur, Ethiopia, Haiti and Cambodia eerily uncanny,
giving reason to pause on
a very serious level. The aftermath of genocides and their unspeakable horrors
are somehow consistently risen above by the strong will of survivors, despite human demoralization,
physical devastation, and untold suffering. Genocides at the bloodstained hands of totalitarian regimes gone mad."
Dr. Gregory Stanton identified eight stages common to all genocides.