A curation by Kelly Krugman, Curator and Cultural Worker at SAVVY Contemporary - “I draw roses. What if I do nothing but draw roses? Why not? Maybe at the end one of them will start talking to me. Will tell me unheard, undreamed stories, like how it feels to be under rains, to grow up in a garden, to be face to face with the sky, to have thorns and unbearably beautiful scents, to be strong and short lived, to come through life without making a fuss about it? What if a rose bush walked toward me and took me into its affection?” — Excerpt from Journey to Mount Tamalpais (1986) by Etel Adnan, Lebanese-American poet, essayist, and painter