Sayfo is the word we use for the Assyrian genocide.
In 1915, my grandfather fled his village of Charbash near Urmia in Iran when he was just 11 years old.
The Ottoman Empire took the land from the Assyrians. The indigenous people native to Mesopotamia (where modern Iran, Iraq, and Turkey exist now).
Over 250,000 Assyrians were wiped out by the occupying Ottoman Empire.
Half of the entire population of the remaining indigenous people.
The rest fled for their lives.
My grandfather and grandmother, being two that, thankfully, made it to New York.
Now, Assyrians have no homeland. No country.
An entire ethnic group that has been around for around 3,000 years almost completely wiped out of existence by an empire that no longer exists.
It's just so senseless.
This painting I did of a woman in a Hijab. I have posters of them on my site.
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All of the proceeds from the sale of this poster is going to Doctors Without Borders.
I'll sign and ship each and every one of them.
I know it's not much. It won't stop a genocide.
But maybe... just maybe... 100 years from now someone's grandchild will be alive and they can tell the story of THEIR people... and what happened to them.
Happy #5YearsofRWRB ❤️🤍💙 5 years since what is now my comfort book, and story, and characters have been introduced to the world! I joined in late but I’m happy to be here now ❤️
Here’s my piece for the RWRB Classics Zine, a free digital zine you can find on our twitter page 🫶
(Based on “Flirt” by Alfons Mucha, who is my number one fav artist of all time. I just replaced the flowers with the yellow rose of Texas and the red rose of England)
My last painting of 2022, and I wanted it to be a painting carrying me into the new year, a tribute to an amazing and inspirational woman.
Star Trek has been a show I have watched since I was a wee one. I started with TNG as a child, but when I finally watched TOS in college, its impact was undeniable, both today and especially during the time it aired.
Although the famous speech says “final frontier”, Nichelle Nichols was a woman leading the way onto new frontiers, a beacon of hope, resilience and possibility. So that is what I wish to carry with me into the new year.
prints can be found through my site: www.lindsayvanek.com
shadowheart in the style of alphonse mucha* call that shart nouveau
if the quality is bad (thanks tumblr) you can view it at my artstation or open to view full!
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If you see this and you like it, please consider giving it a reblog <3 I have a small audience and am relying solely on tags for visibility. I normally wouldn't ask but I've been battling this piece since the beginning of September :')
This was actually so different when I started it and I'm planning on posting WIP shots to sort my thoughts in a different post because I am TIRED and want to post this now. thank you for reading this far
*listen i know its way more rendered than art nouveau/his stuff in particular typically is but i dont have an off button, sorry
Ever since my videos on Youtube and TikTok started getting popular, people would recognize me out in the wild and then realize that I am SO AWKWARD in person.
I LOVE meeting people... but I never know what to say and I always feel like I've disappointed them afterwards.
So, a few months ago... I printed up cards that I could give to people I meet that has an apology inside.
If you happen to see me, please say hi.
But be patient with me... I'm doing my best to "people" .