TY - BOOK ID - 33214137 TI - Sanam Khatibi : my garden is wilder than yours AU - Delobel, Simon AU - Demoen, Nikolaas AU - Daemers, Katrien AU - Khatibi, Sanam PY - 2018 VL - 28 SN - 9789491262296 PB - Gent Posture editions DB - UniCat KW - kunst KW - eenentwintigste eeuw KW - kunstenaarsboeken KW - artists' books KW - Khatibi Sanam KW - Iran KW - België KW - schilderkunst KW - 75.071 KHATIBI KW - schilderen [kunst] KW - Khatibi, Sanam KW - painting [image-making] KW - 75.07 KW - Khatibi, Sanam °1979 (°Teheran, Iran) KW - Belgische kunstenaars KW - Vrouwelijke kunstenaars KW - Schilderkunst ; schilders UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33214137 AB - Nothing particular happened to disrupt the morning of the second day. I continued to follow the increasingly oppressive meanders of this strange swamp,0despairing of ever finding further traces of another human being, when I became aware of a gentle lapping noise coming from a nearby pool. I?d barely caught a glimpse of a naked young woman?s graceful curves when she was bitten by a snake, and then she fled. I will never forget the expression on her pale face: a mixture of surprise and fear, pain and pleasure. So much so that I wondered to what extent she had not yielded to the desire to be the serpent?s victim.0Promising myself not to mistake water snakes for floating branches, I set off in pursuit of the bather. After a few minutes, the sight of an unexpected scene stopped me in my tracks. A group of Naiads, similar in every way to the one I was chasing, were frolicking in the sludgy green waters, joyous and carefree: one hanging upside-down from a branch, the others playing with the severed tentacles of a giant octopus? ER -