Tati El Mallah

Image & Archive

does not rot
standing again on fallen ground
samaki

Writing

Programming

Figure 1

Gelatin silver prints on resin coated paper
15.2 × 15.2 cm (6 × 6 in)
It is everywhere.
All over your hands stained with ink from the newspapers rolled up in the rain. You grab them at the corner store and read them to me. As you ramble away, my head in your lap, the words bleed together my beautiful mumbler. You turn the pictures away from me. I fear your softness. I fear the day you witness what is written across my flesh and soul wish to consume it without a taste

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Figure 2

Gelatin silver print on resin coated paper
15.2 × 15.2 cm (6 × 6 in)

Figure 3

Artist’s book, Coptic-bound (no adhesive)
14.8 × 14.8 cm

Figure 4

Darkroom process
Photographic prints washing in the bath, 2026

Figure 5

Gelatin silver print and contact strip on resin coated paper
15.2 × 15.2 cm (6 × 6 in)
It is everywhere.
My love, you cannot reach me, I am with the cedars now. I am home.
I am swimming through waters too warm for you to encounter.