Art © A K Segan
SWD 26
Ihab Slimane, a young French IT grad, was working as a waiter in London for several months. He was murdered in the London tube and bus bombing terror attacks, July 7, 2005.
Art: 2017
Media: Ink, colored pencil, gouache on crumpled and coffee-stained Daler-Rowney drawing paper.
Médias: Encre, crayon de couleur, gouache sur papier à dessin Daler-Rowney froissé et teinté au café.
The coffee was instant coffee in a packet the artist saved from a spring 2017 UK hotel visit.
Framed: 21 inches H x 36 W [53.3 cm H x 91.4 W]
Slimane was French, from Paris. A recent IT grad, he had moved to London 3 months prior to study and improve his English. His family is of Tunisian descent.
Twenty-four years young, he worked as a waiter in a French restaurant. He planned to return to Paris at the end of the summer to pursue graduate level university studies. He died in a train on the Piccadilly Line near the Russell Square tube station.
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