Histories Disembowled in Umar Rashid’s “En Garde / On God”

two people party while a man on a horse attacks. "DARE" is written across painting.

When discussing such works, he said, “I don’t want to hit people so hard that they don’t respond.” So he doles out kernels of truth, wild imaginings, and pieces of fact and fiction laced with humor, expletives, and explosives, all in order to pull people in to look closer, to do their own research, to grapple with history’s gaping holes, and to make them laugh.

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