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AFGHANISTAN FINE ART
During Solovey's several Afghanistan (OEF) deployments, he also composed additional sketches & watercolour pieces that were more specific to the local environment & architecture. Above & beyond the deployed unit collages, here are a few other offerings within the portfolio
"Jingle Truck" 2007
Watercolour completed in-country at Bagram Air Base. Iconic AFG transport & supply vehicles highly decorated and painted. Known for the how they would "jingle" while moving. Every single OEF Veteran remembers the smell of diesel & the sandy dust these trucks produced
Size: 13" x 19"
Signed & Numbered
50 Artist Proofs ($125)
320 Prints ($75)
Framed Sample
By 2002, Solovey had only experienced a previous deployment to Bosnia in 1998. Upon arriving to OEF I in Kandahar, Afghanistan he signed-in to 2/3 Special Forces Group (FOB 32). The headquarters building seemed to have been, perhaps, some sort of Soviet-era military or police facility complete with its own jail cell.
Behind this headquarter building, was an empty, defunct, and bullet-ridden mosque. It reminded him of some of the abandoned & damaged chapels in Bosnia. He decided to sketch it & it would soon become an iconic watercolor painting
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