Acrylic on Canvas.
20 x 23 inches / 51 x 58.5 cm
That
is
the memory of my village, in particular my home. The beautiful blue sky
and the
green tree is how I remember my home. I just put my memories back.
Because of
the war many people left the place as they tried to kill everybody. You
can see
people running. Nobody lived there for years. The dark door of the
house is the
warning for people not to go inside because nobody knows what might be
hiding
there. It is dangerous to go back to my memories through that door.
When I go
to my memories too far, to the beginning, it is dangerous. I can’t go
back to
1983 or 1984 when my parents were killed.
Atem Aleu
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