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    Art from Guantánamo

    by Erin Thompson Oct 02, 2017 4 minutes

    Muhammad Ansi (released from Guantánamo in 2017), Untitled (Alan Kurdi), 2016. 

    I’m looking at an image of a beach. Deserted, framed by distant headlands, with unsullied sands and clear waters. It is rendered in delicate strokes of watercolor. I’m thinking, as I have every time I have looked at the painting, about how much I would like to go there.

    But I can’t. No one can, not even the artist. This beach exists only in his mind. Although he has lived only yards away from the Caribbean Sea for fifteen years, he has rarely seen the water. He is a prisoner Bay Detention Camp.

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