Refugee Welcome - Belgrade, Serbia douglas fir

Refugee Welcome - Belgrade, Serbia douglas fir"As I walk into the deserted warehouse, the smoke makes my eyes water. The smell is overpowering. The fire is big but it produces surprisingly little heat in the drafty hall. Then the shadows appear one by one, like phantoms from the fog. Wrapped in coats that have traveled half way around the world with them, from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Syria. Through deserts and disasters. Others lie sleeping in piles that look like discarded blankets. They

and is about fitting in and blending in while at the same time

not even her parents’ attempts to coax a smile or a pensive pose

a metaphor suggesting a passage from one moment to the next

The size of the horizontal bands

They are the frightened eyes of citizens living in one of the world’s strictest dictatorships

not unlike a pound of butter

"I photograph her

Celan offers a more profound understanding to the “word”

each of a different height

/ 89 x 61 cm

Enclosed in a simple polyethylene dime baggie

Oil on canvas30 x 40 in