Engaged Media: Involuntary Journeys 1 (detail)

Composite Paintings from storytelling on Google Earth.

For an interactive journey following the Rohingya Khairul – or the painter ‘M’s’ escape from the Syrian persecution. Download both journeys in this .kmz file here. Then start the kmz file in Google Earth (drag+drop).

The project started with Refugee interviews on Lesbos collected on a Project Blog site + explained on this site under ‘Talks+ Shows’. I migrated selected stories as an interactive path onto Google Earth, some of them with intricate textual + image overlays. The images below are compositions of expressive moments of these refugee trails.

Involuntary Journeys – M in Aleppo, dead end
Involuntary Journeys – M in Damascus
Involuntary Journeys – Khairul, lost in mountains and city
Involuntary Journeys – Khairul fleeing Myanmar
Involuntary Journeys – Khairul, interrupted childhood
InvoluntaryJourneys – M the Syrian artist.