Caught 2 and Book Boys are part of a larger series of Black Paintings by Duncan Simcoe. These works appear to reference the continuing epic struggle between the Israeli and Palestinian people for control of disputed lands. On the surface we may see this as a contemporary struggle between two youths that we know to have vastly differing histories and conflicting worldviews, but the paintings also continually refer us back to the common origin of their stories in the Genesis nar- rative of Abraham’s two sons, Isaac and Ishmael, and God’s promise to make both sons into great nations.
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