There’s no shortage of bad news these days, from the U.S. and Mexico border to Iran’s Strait of Hormuz to the battlefields of Ukraine. For four Indianapolis artists — Salma Taman, Alejandra Carrillo, Bailey Jörk and Iryna Bondar — the question isn’t whether to respond, but how. If you don’t know anything about Arabic, Salma Taman’s painting “A Beautiful Forgiveness” might seem abstract because it depicts characters from that alphabet.