This artist book emerges from a place of intimacy with poetic dialogue: especially the legacy of Shikwa and Jawab-e-Shikwa, where the human voice dares to address the divine. Growing up with these works, I became less interested in the authority of either speaker and more drawn to fragility. I began to often shift between the space in the middle. 
 
God And I [A Two Line Poem] extends this inquiry through form. The painting holds two monostichs—two singular lines—that stretch across an elongated scroll, speaking to and against one another. What appears minimal is, in fact, an attempt to compress vast emotional and metaphysical terrain into a distilled exchange.
 
The artist book translates this gesture into a sequence: three double-sided pages that carry both printed and painted interventions, echoing the layered process of thought becoming language, and language becoming image.
 
Each of the 30 editions functions as both a fragment and a whole: a portable residue of a larger meditation on authorship, divinity, and the unstable boundary between subject and object. 
 
Please note I will be mailing these pieces at the end of August 2026 as I would be traveling throughout this summer.