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“Only a few metres were separating us from the first explosion. On one long summer night, they inched closer and closer. Underneath the continuous shelling, from the warplanes and artillery, I started sketching to express the stories of faces from death.”Majdal Nateel, The Last Sketches 2014 Diary, 17 drawings, pen on paper, 34x24 cmThere is no better way to open this review than with Gaza-based artist Majdal Nateel’s words. Nateel is one of six Palestinian artists whose work was showcased at the exhibition On Borrowed time in Gaza: Art in Confinement at Vancouver’s Monica Reyes Gallery on November 2021. Other artists included Maisara Baroud, Maha Daya, Mohammed Alhaj, Rufida Sehwail, and Ganem Alden.In 2014, Nateel was volunteering at a hospital in Gaza during the 51-day bombardment and airstrikes by the Israeili military. There, she witnessed deaths and trauma every day. The artist —who was seven months pregnant at that time — would go home and ske ....