Medium/materials: Digital design from waxed & painted map of Baghdad, card, recycled book covers. Starting from the paper map, wax resist was used to write words about the tragedy, and also lines from the poems of Al-Mutanabbi, onto the surface, which was then flooded with ink. A digital design was created from this surface, which was mirrored and used in a map fold, to create the small books. The covers are created from old recycled book covers, alluding to the secondhand bookshops of Al-Mutanabbi Street.

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.