“I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.”

  • Publication design
  • Exhibition catalogue
  • Center for Book Arts
  • 6 x 8.25 inches
  • 18 pages
  • New York, NY
  • 2020

Publisher: Center for Book Arts
Edition: 200
Year published: 2020
Binding: Softcover, accordion
Dimensions: 6 x 8.25 inches
Pages: 18
ISBN: 978-1-951163-02-0
Binding: Sarah Nicholls
Printing: Print Icon

Available at Center for Book Arts Bookshop

Exhibition catalogue for “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.” Center for Book Arts, New York City, NY, Jan 16–Mar 31, 2020.

Curated by Lila Nazemian, “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name” is an exhibition entitled after a line in Sinan Antoon’s latest novel, The Book of Collateral Damage, featured alongside Hadieh Shafie and Zarina, whose works are deeply embedded within narrative mediums. Through the use of paper, printing methods and orality, each artist produces works that function as allegories for sharing stories of home and of their lived experiences.1

  1. “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.” Center for Book Arts, https://centerforbookarts.org/i-open-my-eyes-and-see-myself-under-a-tree-laden-with-fruit-that-i-cannot-name-exhibition. ↩︎

Spread. “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.”, 2021

Back cover. “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.”, 2021

Accordion. “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.”, 2021

Asterisk. “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.”, 2021

Asterisk. “I open my eyes and see myself under a tree laden with fruit that I cannot name.”, 2021