A Wrong Will Never Right A Wrong - Fundraising Art Print
A Wrong Will Never Right A Wrong is a 12 x 12 inch Giclée art print I have designed in order to raise funds to support Palestinians who are the victims of a horrific genocide by the hands of the State of Israel.
How to order a print?
Every print will be the same size, 12 x 12 inches and unframed. You can however choose how much you want to pay for it.
In the drop-down menu, choose the price you wish to pay amongst the options displayed - £30, £40, £50, £75, £100 or £200.
To help you choose your price, know that if one print was sold during the pre-order window, the cost price, including shipping, would be around £20. If 10 prints were sold, the cost price would be around £15. If 100 prints were sold, the cost price would be around £12. The more prints I order, the cheaper they cost per print, therefore more of your money makes it to Palestine. So don't hesitate to share with your friends, family, acquaintances...
What happens once you order a print?
The prints will be available for pre-order from 22nd April to 3rd June 2025. I will then make one bulk order, reducing the delivery and printing costs as much as possible.
I will then sign, number and package each print individually and send them to you. I am hoping your print will reach you by June 20th. I cannot however guarrantee this time frame.
I will also post on here and on my socials the detail of how much money was raised thanks to you and every other person who will have purchased a print.
How will the money made from selling this print be used?
I will not make any money from selling this print.
Once the printing and shipping costs removed, 100% of the funds collected will go to my chosen charity: The Sameer Project.
I have spent a long time researching charities and organisations. I have chosen to support the Sameer Project because they are a grassroots aid organisation led by Palestinians in the diaspora, working to supply emergency shelter and aid to displaced families in Gaza. Their work is happening on the ground in Palestine, their volunteers don't depend on the borders opening to be there and 100% of the donations they receive is used to support Palestinians - no big organisational overhead.
You can check their online presence and the detail of how they spend donations here: instagram.com/thesameerproject
The specific project I have selected is the Refaat Alareer Camp:
"This encampment serves some of the most vulnerable families: high risk perinatal and neonatal females, children with physical or mental disabilities, adults with special needs and mobility issues, war injuries and chronic diseases.
With this narrowed criteria, we will be able to serve the most critical population with tailored services and facilities, to enhance their health, safety of gestation and delivery for babies and new mothers, prevent complications and further injury of wounds, as well as care for the children and adults that need special attention.
In addition, this takes a burden off the over-stressed hospital system as we also take referrals from medical NGOs to accomodate the most urgent cases as they await medical evacuations out of Gaza by the World Health Organization."
More details found here.
The above link leads to the fundraising platform I will use to donate the funds: Chuffed.org. You can of course make a donation directly through the link. The platform takes a small fee for each donation but is the safest way to get the money straight to the Sameer Project.
Why did I create this piece?
As an artist, I don't have a lot of spare income, so donating an impactful amount of money straight from my pocket is not an option. What I do have to contribute is my art. So I have stayed up late every night for days on end to produce a piece I am proud of and I hope you will want on your wall in order to raise as much money as possible for the people of Gaza. Some run marathons, I draw.
This genocide is horrific in every way. No human should ever be in the position Palestinian civilians and aid workers are in. Removing the outter details to symbolise the lives lost was an incredibly emotional process.
Although made digitally, no AI has been involved in creating this piece. Only sketches by hand and hours of refining every detail.
What is this piece expressing?
Inspired by the watermelon, symbol of Palestine, and symbolising the genocide of its people with the outter part desintegrating, I wanted this print to retain some joy while adressing the harsh reality of what is happening. The spirit of the Palestinian people is still alive and bright yet lives are being lost again and again.
I have entitled it A Wrong Will Never Right A Wrong because I refuse to ever accept the excuse of the Shoah to justify another genocide.
My grand-mother was a primary school teacher in Paris during World War II and, with some colleagues, she took her Jewish students to the south of France before Paris fell to the hands of the Nazis. They took care of those children for months on end and saved them. When they were able to go back to Paris, she then discovered the existence of the camps. She volunteered in a hotel that had been turned into a makeshift hospital and took care of the camp prisonners on their return. She has left me some sort of a memoire and her description of seeing them arrive, incomprehensibly skinny and weak, is heart-breaking and gut-wrenching.
Through my grand-mother's stories and my country's history, I understand the atrocities of war and genocide, although I have been extremely lucky to never experience them first hand, and I stand with the Jewish people in their eternal journey to heal from the Shoah.
I do not, however, stand with the idea that the creation of the State of Israel, on a land that was already another people's home, was a just reparation. And I certainly do not condone the violence it has led to since.
The technical details:
12 x 12 inch Giclée print
Acid-free, archival quality, 330 gsm Canson Cotton paper
The print does not come framed. Framed visuals supplied only as suggestion.