Mahmoud Darwish, poet laureate of Palestine, Wrote:

In my solitude, I scream out loud- not to wake everybody from their deep sleep,

But to shake myself from my own captive imagination.
[Sulus calligraphy]

Our daily victims are:
Between two and eight martyrs,
10 wounded,
20 homes,
50 Olive trees,
And the structural destruction of the ode, the play, and the unfinished painting.
[Nesih calligraphy]
-Mahmoud Darwish, State of Seige, 2002

Soot ink on hand-dyed ahar paper, bordered with acrylic with traditional Palestinian tatreez patterns.