The imagined Palestinian landscapes of Jordan Nassar's tatreez panels
The Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish once dedicated a poem to the frustration he felt at his inability to describe a cloud. Staring up at the sky while walking alone on an unnamed mountain, he wrote that the clouds were “like a cottoned ginned by wind, like a white idea about the meaning of existence”. That poem – and presumably Darwish’ failing words – guides a new series of contemporary…
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