june 1 am } zeri crafts openhouse. one of the events i look forward to, not only because i love their stationary, books and other lovely products, but laila is one of my ‘favorites’
another ‘favorite’ is color-coordinated with laila’s new notebooks
jewelry designer sylvette blaimont poses with two eves…
…and can tie a knot or two
zeri crafts’ earth-hued mashrabiya notebooks
eve in one of zeri crafts’ ramadan baskets
i made joseph and francois pose in front of one of my paintings
eve in a cup of jasmin with three of sylvette’s rings
june 2 pm } the smallest cac reunion ever: hala, dagher and me
hala is my adoptive mother: she feeds and waters me. and every now and then she provides me with a healthy dose of corruption
june 3 pm } at the sahara club edo, hala and i chopstick flirt
i try to get him to pose with a straight face, but it’s physically impossible for him to do it
dagher doing his best popeye pose ever, me and ziad al-duaij
behave, dagher!
june 4 am } dagher and i visit the dar al funoon gallery for the ‘distorted realities’ group show. here, the works of f160
smallest, smaller, small
deena machina
zouz’s sketches hung
deena’s tiny canvases
grotesque and yummy
specimens
bader qabazard
zouz the bird and her dissected brain sketches
a paper structure. i love paper
cat scans
thuraya lynn
more by thuraya. i’m upset that i have no photos of aziz almudhaf’s work. seems so unfair to exclude him, but the photos of his works were on dagher’s phone and i can’t seem to find them. i hope to sort this out soon!
june 5 pm } lunch with khaled and yasmine at tgi friday’s. for old times’ sake
later on in the afternoon i hung out with eve before heading out to abed el kadiri’s farewell dinner at CAP
at CAP i saw these heads
and caught up with mirvet
june 8 pm } at mai’s dinner i enjoy catching up with hania
even hania does selfies
hania, rania, farah, me and suhare go for a group selfie