Don't Make Peace Homeless

There are images that linger in your memory long after you've turned your gaze. I wanted this painting to be one of them...a painting that demands to be heard....

I stood before a canvas, driven by a desire to speak out against the endless wars that fracture our world. From this urgency, I painted a Middle Eastern woman, whose face is both stranger and sister, foreign yet familiar. Her eyes hold not just pain, but endurance—resilience hardened by experience and softened by hope. In her silence, she speaks of families torn apart, of futures lost to fire and rubble, of a world that keeps forgetting the price of war. She is not just a subject on the wall; she is the wall—cracked, bruised, but still standing.

 This painting is an act of resistance. A mural of mourning and a monument to defiance. The words beneath her—“Don’t Make Peace Homeless. End The War.”—strike with the force of truth wrapped in poetry. They challenge us to stop seeing peace as a distant, abstract ideal, and instead treat it as something sacred, something in danger, something that needs shelter in every policy, in every protest, in every act of compassion. The woman’s expression doesn’t offer easy answers; instead, it offers responsibility—the kind that belongs to all of us.

Art, at its best, reveals the world not only as it is, but as it could be. This piece confronts us with what we’ve allowed, and asks us what we’re willing to change. In a time when conflict feels ceaseless and apathy dangerously seductive, this mural becomes a mirror—and a map. A mirror that reflects our collective complicity, and a map pointing toward the only direction worth traveling: peace. To stand before her is to be called to action, not tomorrow, but now.

Don't Make Peace Homeless by Ocean Eversley©

She is not broken—she is the break,
the pause between bomb and birth,
a hymn woven into stone,
the last breath before the forgetting.

Her face is not canvas, but question:
how much grief must a woman wear
before the world hears her silence
as the sound of something sacred?

She lives in the marrow of ruins,
sister to soot, to exile, to ash,
wearing hunger like memory—
and memory like a shield.

Her gaze does not flinch.
It indicts. It mourns. It dares.
Peace is not a metaphor here—
it is flesh, and flame, and fragile thread.

We scrawl our pleas in white,
but the wall bleeds in color.
She is the wall. And the warning.
And still, she waits for us to choose.

Giclée Stretched Canvas Print:Giclee print on museum quality 410gsm polycotton canvas. Stretched on 1.5 inch pine wood and back wire. Ready to hang
Acrylic Print:1/8 (3mm) thick Digital grade Acrylic with back floating Frame of 1 inch thick. Ready to hang
Wood Print:5mm Birch Wood with back floating Frame of 1 inch thick. Ready to hang
Brushed Metal Print:3mm Brushed Metal Print with back floating Frame of 1 inch thick. Ready to hang
HD Sublimation Metal Print:High Gloss Sublimation on Chromalux Panel with back floating Frame of 1 inch thick. Ready to hang
Puzzle Print:High-quality varnished Puzzle print with Retail box
Giclée Rolled Canvas Print:Giclee print on museum quality 410gsm polycotton canvas
Giclée Poster Satin Photo Paper Print:Giclee print on Resin coated Satin Photo Paper 240gsm
Giclée Fine Art Matte Paper Print:Giclee print on Fine Art Matte Paper
Framed Print:Mounted with Plexiglass and Frame. Ready to hang.