Here Was My Home (2010), a central work of Walls of Wartime, includes a faded caricature of the artist as he speaks to an unidentified figure and points to a scratched and coarsely painted area of the composition. His triangular, hourglass body and missing legs evoke a lasting sense of dislocation. Resembling the wreckage of an explosion, the number “18” and the word “home” are written over the discolored portion of the canvas. The composition is divided as two distinct planes: a sun-drenched section that resembles the Iraqi landscapes of his previous works, and a narrow band of brown and green shadows. A third space submerges the artist in a silver fog. The work’s title references the bombing of his Baghdad home in 2007, which the artist first documented in an accordion art book while exiled in Syria.