First, here is an interview of Mansoor Adayfi:
Second, here is his art: (source: https://www.artfromguantanamo.com/)
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These CIA interrogation and torture facilities are an example of American double standards. Instead of torturing people on US territory, they decided to be smart and do that on foreign soil, so that nobody could accuse them of using torture on US territory, and thus being outside the jurisdiction of US institutions (or were they ?).They are thus “innocent”, as such things happened in another country. And international institutions ? Did they prevent this from happening ? No. Some preferred to accuse Assad of “gassing” his own people, something he never did.
Note: the art works above are by former Guantanamo prisoners
MUHAMMAD ANSI
MOATH AL-ALWI
AMMAR AL-BALUCHI
GHALEB AL-BIHANI
DJAMEL AMEZIANE
AHMED RABBANI
KHALID QASIM
ABDUALMALIK ABUD
Mansoor Adayfi, the former Guantanamo prisoner interviewed above, has no art works in the exhibit described at https://www.artfromguantanamo.com/
Mansoor Adayfi only talks about having made art works at Guantanamo – but for some reason is not included in the exhibit. Nevertheless, what Adayfi says about the liberation which making art gave the prisoners who made it is worth consideration as well as a bit of thought. Suddenly, these prisoners were no longer in Guantanomo; suddenly, the inhuman conditions the prisoners were subjected to no longer existed. According to Adayfi, this “escape” afforded by making art allowed the prisoners to survive.
Beautiful artwork.
Our humanity isn’t beautiful, the art of broken is what it is.
Crying an ocean, to womb our wounded species, and to birth whole understanding.
We must raise our collective consciousness into the reality of oneness.
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
“Storyline
Using the torture and death in 2002 of an innocent Afghan taxi driver as the touchstone, this film examines changes after 9/11 in U.S. policy toward suspects in the war on terror. Soldiers, their attorneys, one released detainee, U.S. Attorney John Yoo, news footage and photos tell a story of abuse at Bagram Air Base, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo Bay. From Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Gonzalez came unwritten orders to use any means necessary. The CIA and soldiers with little training used sleep deprivation, sexual assault, stress positions, waterboarding, dogs and other terror tactics to seek information from detainees. Many speakers lament the loss of American ideals in pursuit of security”
This is Pentagon propaganda, the purpose of which is to make you more dissonant than you already are, not to mention the painting of Alan Kurdi, lying on a NATO beachhead.
It is better to learn to defend yourself against US Army/Globalist psych warfare strategems, rather than let yourself be infiltrated by this so-called art.
I have read that this site is a project of the Canadian military, on Patrick Lange’s sic semper tyrannus website, in the comments section where this blog was discussed. At the time I was skeptical it was Canadian, but not that it was a project.
Winston, I’d bet a nickle that if someone locked you up in a place like Guantanamo, you’d eventually be real gratefull to get to do something like … well, some drawing or painting to keep yourself half-way “together” (if you know what I mean). And you wouldn’t care a bit whether somebody called it “art” or “so-called art”. You’d just be glad to be more or less in charge of most of your marbles upstairs.
PS: “But something happened in 2014 that let most of us, finally, see the sea. News that a hurricane was headed toward Cuba caused camp administration to take down the green tarps that blocked us from seeing the sea. The detainees looked so happy when the guards started taking down the covers.
We all faced one direction: toward the sea. It felt like a little freedom, to look at it. … The tarps remained down for a few days, and the detainees started making art about the sea. Some wrote poems about it. … I could see some of these drawings were mixtures of hope and pain. That the sea means freedom no one can control or own, freedom for everyone.” – Mansoor Adafyi, “In Our Prison On The Sea” https://indd.adobe.com/view/567dd3ed-81fb-43b9-83c4-869107e21d52
PPS: And here is an article from “The Nation”: “What We Can Learn From Art Painted Inside Guantanamo”
https://www.thenation.com/article/what-we-can-learn-from-art-painted-inside-guantanamo/
… plus an article about Mansoor Adafyi (who is in dire need of help … as one also learns when one watches the above interview); including another outstanding essay by Mansoor Adafyi.
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2018/08/24/a-beautiful-article-about-love-by-former-guantanamo-prisoner-mansoor-adayfi-please-read-it-and-then-donate-to-support-him/
From: “What We Can Learn From Art Painted Inside Guantánamo” by Erin Thomson (co -curator of “Ode to the Sea: Art from Guantánamo”):
“This is what I wanted to do for the artists. Open doors, scout out paths – but their choice of doors, their choice of paths, not mine. They had told me they wanted people to see them as human beings and that was the case I tried to make for them.
As it turned out, I evidently succeeded a little too well. After the exhibit opened and received a surprising amount of media attention, the artists’ lawyers noticed that the authorities were taking longer and longer to clear artworks to leave Guantánamo. Then, three weeks ago, the Department of Defense declared that all art made at Guantánamo is government property. Detainees reported that their guards then told them any art left behind if they were ever released would be burned and works in their cells deemed ‘excess’ would simply be discarded.”
https://www.thenation.com/article/what-we-can-learn-from-art-painted-inside-guantanamo/