Still from Simone Fattal, Autoportrait, 1972/2012, video, 46 minutes. All images courtesy the artist.
Simone Fattal, The Birds, 2004, Collage, 78x57cm
I would like to tell you two
things:
that I am going to die
and that you are going to
drive a car
that I will live for ever
and that you will plant roses
on the terraces of Damascus.
Syria has two rivers:
The Euphrates
and a
River of Blood
Simone Fattal, Freedom is a State of Mind, 2004, Collage, 78x57cm
One day eve the stars
became soldiers
Isis wept wept over the empty
sky
Simone Fattal, Alessandrina, 2004, Collage, 65x42cm
A bee fell in love with a peach blossom
Shakespeare wrote a
story about it.
You are a teapot who looks like Marilyn Monroe
You are a teapot
that looks like you
Simone Fattal, The Wall, 2004, Collage, 65x50cm
An automobile
is like a ring
around your finger
it follows you
in your sleep
* All poems are from Etel Adnan, The Indian Never Had a Horse and Other Poems. (The Post-Apollo Press, 1985).
