Rising from the Rubble

“Rising from the Rubble” is dedicated to the children of Palestine, to their stolen childhoods, silenced classrooms, and to the unimaginable trauma they endure daily.

The main image replicates “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima”, (that’s your homework) and transposes it into the heart of Gaza. The soldiers are replaced by children. Their battlefield is a mountain of broken books, fragments of learning, laughter, and life buried beneath the horrors of genocide.

The sky is the rising phoenix, a symbol of a people who continue to endure, despite decades of genocide, displacement, and the apathy of a Western political system that has turned its face away.

"Rising from the Rubble' is both memorial and resistance. It asks you not to look away, to see, to feel, and to remember that behind every headline is a child who once dreamed of holding a book, not a flag.