2019 – ongoing
medium/dimensions variable
Poetry dissolves foreign existences into itself.
~ Novalis
Pollen and Fragments remixes imagery from materials left behind by the artist’s grandfather, Egyptian Romantic poet and bee scientist Ahmed Zaky Abushâdy (1892-1955). It refers to Blütenstaub (Pollen, 1798), a philosophical work by the German Romantic poet Novalis consisting of texts that range from laconic to dream-like to mystical.
An essay with images appeared in Cultural Politics, Volume 16, Issue 1, March 2020.
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The Bee Kingdom 