M.I.A.

“...they look like flowers to some people, but they are an emotion related to the situation of the war in Iraq. Each painting had a poem on it, but most people saw flowers. They liked the flowers; they thought the flowers were very beautiful, but the flowers were carrying the weight of the deaths happening there. I painted the flowers extremely beautiful because they needed to be that beautiful. I wanted them to carry that duality. In a sense, all of my work carries that duality. I want that.” -RF