Influenced by the events
of the Arab Spring, the artist, who was born in 1970 in Addis - Ababa and works in New York, has again filled huge
canvases with skeins upon skeins
of architectural plans, city maps, darting lines and free -
flowing, undulating attacks
of ink that are more powerful than ever, abstractly suggesting wild rivers, treacherous mountains and bombed -
out landscapes.