The Big Scream, The Silent Weep | 9×12in, acrylic and gouache on Stonehenge oil paper, 2026.

Two faces — both of them mine. One screaming, one watching with a heavy, grieving stillness. Both of them above, in the sky, bearing witness to what's happening on the ground below.

At the bottom of the painting, what might first read as roots or something growing is neither. It is missiles. Bombings. A darkened landscape. The ambiguity is intentional — destruction that almost looks like life. That inversion is the point.

This painting is a response to an illegal war started by USA-Israel against Iran, to a girls' school in Iran targeted and bombed, someones child being killed due to greed, power, and hate. I feel like I have no power to stop it. Only to witness it. Only to scream and weep from the sky.

Picasso said that painting doesn't rescue — it testifies. This is testimony.

The Big Scream, The Silent Weep is the first work in my In My Own Image series. It begins with a scream at the sky — and sets the tone for everything this body of work is willing to hold.

Original. One of a kind. Signed on the front, back includes size, materials, and signature.