Irshad Salim: Over the years, paints, brushes, the pellet knife and canvases substituted my textual thoughts as I looked out my window at the never-ending war in Afghanistan–broad strokes of expressions in forms, substances and colors they produced subjects as intuitive forecasts. Here they are rightly or wrongly:
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