Artist Notes: In Afghanistan is part of my "Issues of Our Time" Series. It is a based on a photograph from an Afghan exhibit by women university students, 2005. The photo shows that Afghan women are not forced to wear the Burqa and can travel without a male family member, such as on this remote village road. But Taliban and religious terrorist rule has influenced women to cover their faces with a Chadar (scarf). Before, women would only cover their heads, not their faces.

I had permission to use the photo as a basis for my painting from the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC).

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