Dec30 '24: UTW 72,wings series: Glass tray broke,pt1of3, Noor Inayat Khan Holocaust art © A K Segan

The website of artist and pro-life educator A K Segan: www.humanrights-holocaust-art.org
~
Note: This video can be viewed by viewers of all ages. The artist has guest taught children, with his Tolerance Education with Art power-point classes; frequently followed with his facilitating his Drawing-for-Healing art therapy - oriented workshop, with classes of school pupils ages 4 and up, older children, adolescents, teens in schools in six U.S. states, and with adult audiences in 7 states. He has guest taught all age audiences in Britain, including classes at numerous primary and secondary schools. He has guest education majors (student teachers-in-training) at university classes in Illinois, England; guest taught teachers at a secondary school, Hod Ha’sharon, Israel; guest taught at the School of Social Work, Haifa Univ.; guest taught first year M.A. Art Therapy classes, Arts Therapies program, Haifa University, Israel. He has facilitated workshops at International Conferences on the Holocaust & Education (Oct. '99, April '02, May '06), International School for Holocaust Education, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
~
Dec. 30, 2024. While moving this artwork to a wall so a forthcoming visitor can see it, somehow I must have banged it while carrying it and an upside down glass ash tray, which was on the lower right side of the wood frame, came undone. I took 3 videos of this today; this is the first of the three.
~
I spent a few hours working on this frame mishap this morning, including going to a charity thrift store to see if I could find a heavyweight clear plastic box of a certain width. I didn't find one.
~
The glass ash tray had contained small metal pieces of (British military) barbed wire I had picked up on a beach walk in Newburgh, Scotland in 2017. The barbed wire had been part of British military anti-Nazi tank fortifications on the beach. Those fortifications decay over the years yet are striking to look at including bunker like rooms.
~
There are videos of footage I took there on the beach, up in RUclips. They probably show in a RUclips search of,
e.g.. Newburgh beach A K Segan (might be 2012 or 2015);
Newburgh Beach David Atherton A K Segan.
British artist David Atherton took me on one or two beach walks there. A colleague, I've known since 1987 when I was Int'l Artist in Residence, Aberdeen Art Gallery, he's a fan of British WWII military history. I had visited him and other friends and colleagues during teaching trips to Scotland.
~
About the art, Under the Wings 72:
UTW 72: GRRRR! BLEECHIE! Sea Monsters and the Martyrdom of
Noor Inayat Khan, 1914- 1944 / Art: September 16 - 29, 2020
Media: Black ink, colored inks, crayon, gouache, colored pencil, pencil
(The drawing to be professionally photographed)
Framed, 30 5/8 in. H x 26 3/8 W [76.35 cm. H x 66.9 W]
The outside of the wood frame was ratified with the following: A metal plaque from a sewing machine or a bureau-dresser from Scotland; a broken wood clothes hanger; 7 rocks & stones the artist picked up on the banks of the Thames River in London, April 2017; a piece of driftwood; a toy Best of British London bus; and a piece of wood from an old broken table. The rocks and stones are inset in 4 circular wood pieces).
~
She was born in Moscow, Russia, January 1, 1914. Her father, Inayat Khan (1882-1927) was a well-known Muslim Sufi from India. Her mother, born Ora Ray Baker, was American, from Alberquerque, New Mexico. The family moved to London, England in 1914 when Noor was an infant. In 1920 the family moved to Paris, France. In 1940 the family went by sea to Cornwall, England after the Nazi’s armed forces invaded France from Germany. Noor volunteered to be a British intelligence forces agent; she was sent to France. Eventually betrayed and arrested, she was murdered on September 13, 1944 at the Nazi’s Dachau concentration-death camp in Germany. She was thirty years of age.
~
The subsequent 2 videos I took today, Dec 30, 2024, to be uploaded in the next few days.
~
art, video © A K Segan