Our Children

Picture Story

Mourning the 150+ schoolchildren killed in the attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School for Girls in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026.

The artist engaged in dialogue with the thousand-year-old sculptures of Qiongzhu Temple. In the painting, beams of light cleave through darkness; children's bodies entangled in pools of blood; the halo above their heads both an angelic ring and the flash of explosion.

This work is a brutal counter-proof to the belief that "when humans connect with each other, it is paradise" — calling for an end to mutual slaughter in the name of wealth and power. A direct voice as one person, about the moment we must change.