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Good journalists make a story come alive to a reader or viewer.
This portrait was inspired by a portrait of Bob Hope in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. and combines drawing and sculpture at life scale to evoke the person who is gone.
Portions of Ali Nuxurkey are sculpted and combined with pencil drawing and stain on a wooden plank. Glass beads were added to evoke the Somali shoreline and ocean.
Mohammed Ali Nuxurkey, a VOA reporter in Somalia, was killed March 19, 2013, after a bomb exploded near the National Theater in Mogadishu. He was 29 years old.