Absence and Presence I

March 2014
Copy, pen and white-out.
4.5"

I have been invited to participate in a print-maker's response to the March 5, 2007 bombing of the book market on Al Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. As a landscape artist it was a hard task to wrap my head around and at first I looked at images of books in piles of refuse. This first sketch is unfinished and I do not plan to carve it in a block, but it was an interesting diversion form what I usually create.