Arbre 4 | Arbres, 2019
Etel Adnan
Collection
Ink and pastel on paper
30.5 x 40 cm (each)
I had lunch in the garden, under a tree, not an oak tree, a tree whose name I forgot. But I didn’t forget the freshness of the air in the midst of this heat. A garden! Once in a while, its magic works, like it did today, a breeze circulating in the branches. One of those trees is a magnolia thriving in this non-tropical country. There are also down there weeds, grass, some timid flowers.
I want to go rafting, not only on rivers but on any experience, the mental ones particularly, feel the joy of frantic concepts, of their freedom mainly. It’s tiring to analyze, cut thinking into bits, scrutinize happenings, so much labor for mediocre results. Let’s jump and dive, go with winds, let’s get wet and even hurt, let’s give the Yellowstone River the chance to toss us the
way it does tree trunks and salmon, let’s use its ways on our dormant brains!
I need to simplify my thinking: to come to the roots of the olive trees I have planted on my island, sit close to them, look at every leaf. Start early in the morning. Then close my eyes and let the morning sun touch my face. Go to the Mediterranean at the street corner, go into its water, its salt, its acid colors, its heat. Oh Lord, let’s stop thinking. Let’s just be, and for many hours in a row, merge with this vegetal and metallic kind of consciousness which is so overpowering.
Etel Adnan - Shifting the Silence
Etel Adnan (Arabic: إيتيل عدنان; 24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.. Besides her literary output, Adnan made visual works in a variety of media, such as oil paintings, films and tapestries, which have been exhibited at galleries across the world.
UPCOMING LOANS
Group show: Remedios
Venue: C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
Curator: Daniela Zyman
Exhibition 14 April 2023 - March 2024
This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.
30.5 x 40 cm (each)
I had lunch in the garden, under a tree, not an oak tree, a tree whose name I forgot. But I didn’t forget the freshness of the air in the midst of this heat. A garden! Once in a while, its magic works, like it did today, a breeze circulating in the branches. One of those trees is a magnolia thriving in this non-tropical country. There are also down there weeds, grass, some timid flowers.
I want to go rafting, not only on rivers but on any experience, the mental ones particularly, feel the joy of frantic concepts, of their freedom mainly. It’s tiring to analyze, cut thinking into bits, scrutinize happenings, so much labor for mediocre results. Let’s jump and dive, go with winds, let’s get wet and even hurt, let’s give the Yellowstone River the chance to toss us the
way it does tree trunks and salmon, let’s use its ways on our dormant brains!
I need to simplify my thinking: to come to the roots of the olive trees I have planted on my island, sit close to them, look at every leaf. Start early in the morning. Then close my eyes and let the morning sun touch my face. Go to the Mediterranean at the street corner, go into its water, its salt, its acid colors, its heat. Oh Lord, let’s stop thinking. Let’s just be, and for many hours in a row, merge with this vegetal and metallic kind of consciousness which is so overpowering.
Etel Adnan - Shifting the Silence
Etel Adnan (Arabic: إيتيل عدنان; 24 February 1925 – 14 November 2021) was a Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and visual artist. In 2003, Adnan was named "arguably the most celebrated and accomplished Arab American author writing today" by the academic journal MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States.. Besides her literary output, Adnan made visual works in a variety of media, such as oil paintings, films and tapestries, which have been exhibited at galleries across the world.
UPCOMING LOANS
Group show: Remedios
Venue: C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
Curator: Daniela Zyman
Exhibition 14 April 2023 - March 2024
This biography is from Wikipedia under an Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License.