Flower from Ruins

Description: three color woodcut on Magnani Pescia. Edition of
Seeing photographs of Al-Mutanabbi Street before and after the bombing, I made an image specific to the street but universal. Within the chaos of flying wood and stones I drew the particular characteristics of one pillar from a colonnade on Al-Mutanabbi Street. My palette consists of purple as my dark because it vibrates with other hues as a black would not; yellow suggesting sunlight filtering through ruins, white for the bleached out sky above. The giant flower cried out to be red-orange, its energy thrusting up through the boards and stones as indestructible as the spirit of human creativity(retrieved from IUCAT on Nov. 1, 2019.).
Origin: 2014
Created By: Ginsberg-Place, Ruth
Contributor(s): Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition
Publisher: (Brookline, MA)
Source: http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/AMSSH/id/1006
Collection: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition Collection
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Copyright: In Copyright
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