Remembering Somalia
by Peggy Kahan
Title
Remembering Somalia
Artist
Peggy Kahan
Medium
Digital Art - Digital Art
Description
For the past two years I have volunteered to work with legal refugees and immigrants, both helping to teach citizenship classes and ESL Ready to Work classes. I worked with a group of women from Somalia one year and was struck by their friendly optimism as well as their beauty. I hope this portrait, done on the computer, captures the beauty of these women and the mix of sadness and pride as they remember families and better times in Somalia. The river in the background represents the Jubba and Shebelle Rivers. Contributors of fertile farmland for several centuries, these rivers have suffered from draught yielding famine and suffering around the country.
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June 29th, 2019
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