Twenty years after these two artworks were created in 2006 to record the chaos underway in Lebanon, little has changed. While the names of many thousands of boys or girls may be different, Lebanon is once again under attack from a new Israeli territorial landgrab in 2026. Whole towns are being demolished block by block, erasing any chance for their former occupants to return. The two artworks hang alongside a lit candle in the Never the Twain Shall Meet exhibition to again draw attention to the overwhelming death and destruction.

Whatever happened to little Mahmoud? 2006
Sand, acrylic on wood
70 x 50 cm

During the 2006 attack on Southern Lebanon by Israel, while waves of strikes were coming down on people trying to flee to “safety” a little boy stood alone waiting, his mother across the way shouting “Mahmoud! Mahmoud!” screaming and crying for him to be saved… The camera man kept filming instead of helping the child reach his mother.

Ground zero: Do not disturb! 2006
Sand. Acrylic, grout on wood
70 x 50 cm