Ink on paper from a notebook with thirty-eight ink on paper drawings
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People and rocks
People and rocks
People and rocks
People and rocks
Ibrahim El-Salahi: “People and rocks. People and rocks. People and rocks.” I kept repeating this almost like a prayer, trying to see how in certain situations you can be petri ed, you can become static. At the same time, you are a human being. You have a heart, you have a mind, you have a brain. You have an apparatus within you that can show you the right way and the wrong way, so you can maneuver your destiny as you go along. But sometimes it takes you back. By the actions of others, you are made into a stone to protect yourself, to protect your innocence. You petrify yourself because of the situation.
Ibrahim El-Salahi. Prison Notebook, 1976. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2018.
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