The Startlingly Serene Paintings of an 11-Year Guantanamo Prisoner

Much of what’s moving about these paintings isn’t what they show, but what they don’t. How could a man who was tortured and stripped of his identity manage to make art that’s so serene? If the work contains any political message, the Center for Constitutional Rights’ Aliya Hussain told Wong, it’s only that a “human story is the most subversive one.” More here.