Following the terror attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, which claimed the lives of 50 people, a cartoonist for an Australian newspaper has redrawn the New Zealand’s iconic silver fern as Muslims in different stages of prayer. Pat Campbell, who drew the cartoon for the Canberra Times, told BuzzFeed News that he has friends in Christchurch and owns a small block of land just outside the city. Campbell said he hadn’t slept well and was lying in bed when the idea came to him. “I was thinking of the fern and thinking the pinnae (the individual bits coming off the stem) looked like figures, a similar number to the number of victims,” he said. He then decided to draw the fern but with the silhouettes of people praying, he said. The 50 figures were deliberate, he said. “There were a lot of silhouettes to draw,” he said. “They just kept coming. It brought home to me the death toll and the destruction one man can do with the right weapons.” The cartoon has since been widely shared online. (📷: @patcartoons for the Canberra Times, 📝: @kassy) - #theyareus #art #artist #cartoon #cartoonist #artistsoninstagram #drawing #shooting #massshooting #gunman #gun #guns #terrorism #terrorist #violence #attack #mosque #mosques #islam #religion #muslim #muslims #islamophobia #islamophobic #christchurch #christchurchshooting #newzealand #nz #kiwi #aotearoa
