Humanity Hope

What happened to humanity during the past two years was painful. No one would have imagined that a virus would invade the world, and we find ourselves unable to face it. We have lost many loved ones, yet we resisted with all our might. We helped the families in need due to the stop in economic movement and aid to the medical staff in which we saw salvation. At that stage, I sold a painting that I drew with a pencil and gave the financial return to a charitable organization. I also thought of doing an artwork that immortalizes this phase of human life centered around the medical teams that sacrificed a lot to save people. Many doctors died while doing their noble job yet, the medical team did not give up on their mission. I experienced the situation closely because my wife and sister are doctors who worked in the hospital where Covid 19 patients got treatment. During the pandemic, I isolated myself with the two doctors away from my elderly parents and left my young daughter in another house. As soon as the first wave of covid 19 subsided, the family reunited again and decided in the summer of 2021 to illustrate a work of art that memorializes those conditions we lived in during the pandemic. Though as soon as I prepared myself to paint, the second wave of covid 19 hit the world. We all got sick at home including my pregnant wife, but my mother's case was more severe and dangerous due to her age. Our country's hospitals suffered from an oxygen crisis, and for that, my sister (the doctor) decided to treat my mother at home. She endured a great responsibility with a lot of fear and anxiety as we monitored the oxygen system, temperatures, and heartbeat for very difficult days. Despite the strong emotions, my sister was capable of applying everything she learned in the hospital from Covid patients to my mother. After all what we lived and what we heard of different stories about doctors who left this world doing their noble job. I decided to immortalize this phase by drawing an oil painting using brushes of different sizes based on the under-painting method and only a little Van Gogh's impasto technique without using rough layers of colors in line with the method adopted for painting on canvas.