The Woodpecker. Auschwitz - Birkenau

By Phil Whiting 1995 - 2004

Phil Whiting

Painting
Abstract & Conceptual
Sorrow
Holocaust
Memory
Metaphor
Project

Dimensions
42x48

A painting made from my visit to Auschwitz - Birkenau in December 2004 when alone and in the 'screaming silence' of the silver birch woodlands near Gas Chamber 4 I heard and saw a woodpecker working away.

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Dawn Swans. February Moon Otmoor. We got up early that day to watch the dawn break through the mist at Otmoor. And then a moment of magic...

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