Ayman Baalbaki: New Beginnings

Household Goods Dept: VANCOUVER A beat-up 1970s Toyota Corona sits among bundles of household goods, waiting for the tarried family who will pile their life atop its roof racks and drive to new beginnings, according to The Chronicle Herald. The life-size visual display entitled Destination X by Lebanese artist, Ayman Baalbaki, chronicles his family flight from their homeland during a 1970 civil war and The sky-blue car is part of a new exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology that showcases the works of contemporary artists from the Middle East, in the hopes they can debunk a western-world myth that the area is all about burkas, bloodshed and bombings. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.