Asmaey, is Real
She lives inside every human.
She is a little part of you…
You are real… so is she.
She lives in her reality,
but resides in your fantasy.
Poetry
Asmaey is also the name of a figure who recurs through this work: muse, alter ego, and narrator. These verses are her voice as much as the artist's own.
Untitled I
Somewhere between the canvas and the hand,
a color remembers a name it hasn't been given yet.
I keep painting toward it.
On Silence
The studio holds its breath at dusk,
and everything unfinished
looks, for a moment, complete.
Winter Studio
Cold light, warm ochre,
a window that forgets to close.
I work until the shape agrees with me.