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From Women in Art:
In his “October Afternoon,” painting late artist Sulieman Mansour shows us a Palestinian woman sitting beneath an olive tree, wearing traditional Palestinian dress.
But what immediately catches the eye is the woman herself—half of her is in color, while the other half is almost completely without color.
This division can be read as a reflection of Palestine: One part still present and holding firmly to its land and identity, while another carries the traces of war and displacement.
Behind her, the olive tree stands as a symbol of land, roots, and belonging.
Palestine is not painted here as a map… but as a woman carrying a homeland in her features.
Suleiman Mansour is gone, but his paintings remain to tell the story of Palestine.
