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GROWTH HURTS

Sometimes your thoughts spring to life

GROWTH HURTS

Prompt 6 - remains

two queens meet, stingers drawn

there can only be one in the hive

(original 2020 version under the cut!)

GROWTH HURTS

I really should have learned by now that inktober just isn't for me - I get hyped up by the prompts, can't keep up with the breakneck pace I set myself (the plan was a full a4 ink illustration every other day, including weekends)

Ahaha. Hah. Hah.

I got two finished and one plotted out? Like the idea sketches were done and I was trying to build a ref in minecraft. ACK

Mohammed Aborjela shared this short documentary on October 6. He interviews Naseem, a displaced farmer helping to harvest olives at an orchard near her displacement camp.

Before the war, Naseem had her own olive groves. She recalls how members of her family would come help harvest, and the sense of family and community through this shared activity. Though her farm is destroyed, she tells Aborjela "I love harvesting the trees. It's the beautiful part."

Olive trees are a long standing cultural symbol in Palestine. Before the war, olive production made up 14% of Palestine's economy. As such, these trees have been a target of occupation forces for many years.

Mohammed Aborjela is on Instagram @ aborjelaa. He also is part of the mutual aid and volunteering initiative Shabab Gaza (@ shababgaza).

two queens meet, stingers drawn

there can only be one in the hive

(original 2020 version under the cut!)

GROWTH HURTS