Illustration for the monthly “Ask Smithsonian” question column. The question, why do so many major train stations share the same name? For Smithsonian magazine.
Angel of Aquaculture, illustrated silk scarf. Part of a series related to issues of food security, exhibited at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization Food Summit in Rome.
“In the name of humanity!” Today I am a Muslim, a rally to support the Muslim population and denounce the Muslim ban, Times Square, NYC, 2017. Drawn on-site.
“RIP the American Presidency.” The Rise and Resist Jazz Funeral for the American Presidency, in Washington Square Park, President’s Day, 2017. Drawn on-site.
The blessing. From a jummah prayer service in the parking lot outside of Terminal 4 in JFK, during the January 2017 Muslim travel ban to the United States. Drawn on location.
Prayer for families. From a jummah prayer service in the parking lot outside of Terminal 4 in JFK, during the January 2017 Muslim travel ban to the United States. Drawn on location.
The jummah. From a jummah prayer service in the parking lot outside of Terminal 4 in JFK, during the January 2017 Muslim travel ban to the United States. Drawn on location.
Pigeons: illustrating how Isaac Bashevis Singer’s daily walk included feeding pigeons from a paper bag. Created for exhibition at The Writer’s Museum in Chicago.
“Author Patricia Highsmith kept snails as pets, and once came to a party with a handbag containing lettuce and 100 snails.” Exhibition illustration for the Writer’s Museum in Chicago.
Editorial illustration for the cover of the Washington Post Local Living section, for an article about gardening work that can be done during the winter months. Pen and ink with watercolor.
A jummah prayer service in the parking lot outside of Terminal 4 in JFK, during the January 2017 Muslim travel ban to the United States. The invocation. Drawn on location.
Editorial illustration for the Washington Post Local Living section, for an article about gardening work that can be done during the winter months. Pen and ink with watercolor.
Editorial illustration for the Washington Post Local Living section, for an article about gardening work that can be done during the winter months. Pen and ink with watercolor.
How do you illustrate a crime scene? I used a textured line and muted colors to soften the harsh subject matter. For the London Sunday Times Insight feature; created with Mental Canvas.
Reportage illustration of the Spiderman balloon at the annual NYC Thanksgiving Day parade, sponsored by Macys. Drawn on location. Accepted to the American Illustration exhibit.
Visualization of a proposed exhibit in the Tenement Museum in New York City, depicting a 1980s Chinatown sweatshop, detail showing a storytelling device for the exhibit.
Visualization of a proposed exhibit in the Tenement Museum in New York City, depicting how different immigrant groups affected the media landscape in New York.
Non-Addictive Painkiller: Part of a series of illustrations created as a campaign for SNX-111, a painkiller derived from the venom of a sea snail. Neurex corporation.
Medicine from Nature: Part of a series of illustrations created as a campaign for SNX-111, a painkiller derived from the venom of a sea snail. Neurex corporation.