the donkey that ate the sun
group show at art affair
beirut, lebanon
december 2025
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On a voyage beyond the Baltic Sea, a pirate encountered a strange and powerful fable: the tale of a donkey and the sun.It tells of a donkey, trapped within the confines of a room, whose anger cast a red hue upon everything. One day, he found his way to freedom—and turned his hunger upon the sun itself, the symbol of the ego. With the ego’s dissolution came a great transformation. The donkey was imbued with a deep, abiding wisdom. His steps grew steady and purposeful; wherever he walked, paths formed. He carried stone and wood for construction, and food for those in need. In time, the donkey, weary and fulfilled, lay down and returned to the soil, and the very land became blessed, its nourishment a final gift to the world.
The pirate heard this story while eating from that very land—the soil infused with the donkey’s last offering— and the tale struck him with an unfamiliar clarity, as if he had swallowed a fragment of its truth.
Inspired, he translated the story into a series of drawings on fabric. He rolled the scrolls, sealed them within glass bottles, and committed them to the vast, unknowing currents of the sea. His intention was for these vessels to become capsules of energy, carrying the story’s transformative core to distant shores and waiting hands.
