Recovery
Acrylic on canvas, 72" x 48", 2009

This eight-year-old Afghan girl was severely wounded in a Taliban attack on her family home. It looked like she might lose her right leg. Captain Bruce Reeves, head ward nurse, suggested that they try a skin graft from the girl's healthy leg. For three weeks her legs were bound together at the ankles and the procecure worked. I witnessed this girl walk out of the hospital.