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The Ghost Desert Syria: Not Goodbye To All That!

By  Phil Whiting 2011 - 2019
This small painting developed from a sketch I made in Northern Syria in 2011. In 1915 the Turkish Genocide of the Armenian people took place in these hills. I left Turkey this year after a two week visit on the night that Erdogan sent his army over the border to these hills to massacre the Kurds.
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EARTH CONCEAL NOT MY BLOOD

Who are these children?

SO YOU WANT IT DARKER USA?

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