"what use is it to be an illustrator of children's books when the world has sentenced the children of your country to the death penalty, to vanish, to genocide?"
some of baraa's illustrations:
this is an illustration for youssef, whose mother is remembered running desperately into the hospital asking if anyone had seen a "small white boy with beautiful curly hair, his name is youssef," a description which was remembered by millions when she finally identified his body:
this illustration is for young omar, who was hugging his little brother and teaching him how to repeat the shahada after him (a prayer spoken by muslims before their death) as he lay on his hospital bed:
"we want a new year that doesn't kill us or our children, we want it a year without blood, without screaming, without pain, we want a new attempt to get our lives back, or something that resembled our life, even if life is a lie we still cling to it, return life to us—a new year's card unlike any other year:"
(1/2?) Some screen caps from a weird little project I was working on last month. I challenged myself to draw a panel for every lecture I was stuck sitting in. It was inspired a lot by Alice isn't Dead and other media like that. IDK if I'm ever going to revisit it, but I'm trying to share more of my art and writing!
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if I had a nickel for every time the second season of a horror podcast ended with brutal murder noises I'd have two nickels. Which isn't that many but it's still weird it happened twice.