Paintings
ash & ode
acrylic, ink, collage on paper
10" x 10"
2013
The poem is an ode by Tarafah ibn al 'Abd ben Sufyan ben Malik al Bakri, translated by Pierre Joris: "As you cannot save me from death/let me offer death, right now,/ all this hand can hold... / the days will lay/ bare what you don't/ yet know and/ someone will refuse you bread/ someone will come bringing news:/ a traveler with no luggage and no invitation."