Mahbubeh
Kiss
a. 22:46. b. 41°47’21.5” N 87°35’52.5” W, in the green space.
b. near the circular fountain. c. they are not mahbubeh,
c. mahbubeh is appointed.
d. on cut ornamental grass, they were doing hurdles.
d. sometimes, while irrigation, they sit beside me and put their
d. muddy feet in the water.
e. they had three tattoos inside of their lower lip.
g. i remember,
h. they kept the cilia of their lower lip on my face.
h. they kept a distance so that their eyelashes,
h. did scratchies on my right cheek.
h. they ought to possess love healing.
i. eyes are closing, in four frames.
j. in the duration of 0.1 mm before the touch.
k. in the touched area.
k. four fingerprints without the thumb.
l. locally, their hallows and corpus,
l. were engraved on mud.
Mahbubeh is an artist book that urns a collection of narratives from touching a plant to ancient history, from tablets to amputated bodies after an explosion. This autoethnographic collection stages the author’s experience with the US Department of Homeland Security (US DHS) in poems, images, and an essay; via various printing methods and materials. Mahbubeh lands a plant, an archive of tablets, and a tool in Counter-terrorism Studies, designed as an identificatory. The poems are apostrophe constraint writings that perform the phases of the interrogation by US DHS in English and Farsi.
in the following collections:
James Graham Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
John M. Flaxman Library, Special Collections, Chicago, IL.
Columbia College Chicago Library, Main Stacks, Chicago, IL.
The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
Poor Farm Press, Manawa, WI.
Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany.
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.
MOP Foundation, London, UK.
Sass Popoli, Author; Amira Hegazy, Bookmaker; Irene Wa., Graphic Designer
Poor Farm Press
ISBN: 978-0-578-92914-9
2021
Inkjet Print, Letterpress, Risograph, Silkscreen Printing, Hot Foil Stamp Printing, Laser Engraving
Laval Bookcloth velvet flocked (velour), Iris Bookcloth, Rice Paper, Fluorescent Green Acrylic
29 × 21 × 3 cm
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