It is a series of work on children and I have chosen Linocut as the medium. This series is dedicated to all those children who went missing during the second world war and the Holocaust. A war in itself is an act of the irrational mind which otherwise makes no sense to ordinary people. It throws out every value system which man has carefully cultivated and built up over the centuries. Every human progress is interrupted whenever Nations go to war. War erases all the memories of such values which humans have created and have contributed to the progress of the societies. War is the ultimate reflection of the very essence of man’s violent act on both Nature and Man which in turn destroyed civilizations. It blurs the distinction between good/bad, ugly/beautiful, truth/false, real/fake, life almost ceases to exist. 

I started working on this series of children’s portraits because I realized that women and children are the most vulnerable and they have no role to play in the war, they have no active or passive involvement in the war, they stand outside of it and become prey to the barbarous act. Children’s ignorance and their innocence are lost. It…

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