Warheads (2023-24) is a layered and complex abstract painting from the series ‘Ghosts of Gaza’ where two sides clash in violent confrontation. On one, an organic mass of shapes and writhing line meets the other more regimented and mechanised march of repeated geometric forms. Strong colours abound with blue, yellow and red primaries in vibrant confusion, upset by black, white and flashes of green. The surface is a complicated mash of jarring shapes, scrawling line, patterns, textures and colour. Suggestions of heads, eyes and faces emerge from the mass only to be overwhelmed and broken apart. Fragments of objects, a bottle, a kettle seem to tumble forth in the face of a relentless march from the right as an army of white cross like symbols march. Evoking grave yards, target markers, even aircraft, tanks, shrouds or soldiers, pressing forward into the centre sowing red and yellow flashes of explosion and flame. Somewhere behind this overwhelming noise, the blue of the sky and a landscape of cultivated fields hosting this bloody struggle.
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