Tom Young leads a drawing workshop in the heart of an improvised shelter, transforming the space into a haven for creativity. (Credit: Rayanne Tawil/L'Orient Today)
The drawings had already dried on the concrete when the first explosion ripped through Beirut on Wednesday, April 8.In the courtyard of a school in Raml al-Zareef, children had spent the entire afternoon bringing trees, butterflies, and imaginary landscapes to life on paper — so many fragile but determined attempts to piece a world back together.Earlier, at the center of the courtyard, Tom Young led the impromptu circle with an almost feverish energy. Children clustered around him. Behind him, his canvases — leaning on simple plastic chairs — opened onto other horizons: a cedar radiating light, a city dissolving into color, a flower emerging from rubble."It's a tragedy. A catastrophe for all of us in Lebanon. But the trauma these children are experiencing will mark them for life," he told L'Orient-Le Jour. Wartime...
The drawings had already dried on the concrete when the first explosion ripped through Beirut on Wednesday, April 8.In the courtyard of a school in Raml al-Zareef, children had spent the entire afternoon bringing trees, butterflies, and imaginary landscapes to life on paper — so many fragile but determined attempts to piece a world back together.Earlier, at the center of the courtyard, Tom Young led the impromptu circle with an almost feverish energy. Children clustered around him. Behind him, his canvases — leaning on simple plastic chairs — opened onto other horizons: a cedar radiating light, a city dissolving into color, a flower emerging from rubble."It's a tragedy. A catastrophe for all of us in Lebanon. But the trauma these children are experiencing will mark them for life," he told L'Orient-Le Jour. ...
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