Ground, Dormancy, and Oblivion

A poppy? The head of a tulip and a marguerite in the top left corner? Maybe not, as marguerites aren't red - probably a gerbera.

And then there is something with three leaves. Something floral, definitely huge. Flower heads Alice could walk through in her wonderland.Serdar shows me the picture of a poppy field on his cell phone. It was taken in Mixeyt, the village he came from close to the city of Al-Malikiya in Kurdish Syria. It reminds Dakhil of the flower arrangements framing the doors to his folk's houses and rooms at New Year's. Georgia O'Keeffe comes to my mind:"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."

Zineta draws lines and fills spaces. Latif brings imperfection to perfection. Khaled pulls nails out of planks at a Neukölln construction site. Aymen and Housam are busy planting a raised flowerbed that - for the time being - looks more like a loft bed. Dakhil is trying to find a form that might help him trace an abstract interpretation of the sun.