Coloured pencil on paper
197 x 150 cm

This large pencil drawing is of the entrance to an earth tunnel in the village of Darwan, Afghanistan, from an image taken by Australian SAS soldiers during twenty years of War in Afghanistan.

I have returned the image to a scale around life-sized, looking for traces of its history: place as witness.

The choice of coloured pencil as material is a deliberate decision to insert the perspective of children back into narratives of war.

Image: Brenton McGeachie