3 books as one book-object; dimensions vary between books.

Medium: Paper, wood, letters.

On March 5th, 2007, a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. Al-Mutanabbi Street is located in a mixed Shia-Sunni area. More than 30 people were killed and more than 100 wounded. Al-Mutanabbi Street, the historic center of Baghdad bookselling, holds bookstores and outdoor bookstalls, cafes, stationery shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. It has been the longstanding heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community for centuries. In response to the attack, a San Francisco poet and bookseller, Beau Beausoleil, rallied a community of international artists and writers to produce a collection of letterpress-printed broadsides (poster-like works on paper), artists' books (unique works of art in book form), and an anthology of writing, all focused on expressing solidarity with Iraqi booksellers, writers and readers. The coalition of contributing artists calls itself Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Coalition.

Gift; Beau Beausoleil; 2019-2020.

"I have read with enthusiasm since childhood, writing little poems and texts since 1995, working with artists, including Friederun Friederichs, Lene Rose Gruner, and Cordula Heyl. I am fascinated by human behavioral patterns, which - depending on how people are raised - often can turn out different; yet, we all belong to the same species. The intellectual conversion is done through my own poems on materials like wood, canvas, metal, paper, plants and stone. Recent exhibitions and book events have included: Frankfurter Buchmesse, Frankfurt a. Main; 'grenzenlos' (Hungry Cloth II, 'Limitless') Kunstfluss Wupper, RegioArte e.V.; 'After the Big Bang, ' Brain Cell bulletin Board Ryosuke Cohen, Osaka, Japan; Mayworks 2012, a Festival of Labour and the Arts; Bookmarks X 2012"--Artist's statement from the Book Arts at the Centre for Fine Print Research, UK website.

In English and German.