Jill Carroll, Iraq, January 2006.
acrylic on canvas, 12"x12", [30x30cm].

Exhibited at the Cabrillo Gallery: "ON/OFF: Art in the Digital Era". (3 paintings selected). Cabrillo College, Apto, California. Juror: Sheila Malone. October 8 - November 2, 2007.

Exhibited at the San Diego Art Institute (SDAI), February 2006. Juror: WilliamFeeney.
Juror's Choice Award.

Painted while Jill Carroll was a hostage. American reporter Jill Carroll was set free Thursday, March 30, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq, nearly three months after she was kidnapped in a bloody ambush that killed her translator. She said she had been treated well. Carroll, 28, was dropped off near offices of the Iraqi Islamic Party. She walked inside, and people there called American officials, Iraqi police said. "I was treated well, but I don't know why I was kidnapped", Carroll said in a brief interview on Baghdad television.