05/08/2026
I adore this book, it is so pretty! A cardinal red cover stock with white ink. Saif Azzuz: Keet Hegehlpa’ (the water is rising), published by the always-designing-great-looking-titles Sming Sming Books.
Keet Hegehlpa’ (the water is rising) brings together Azzuz’s artwork and installation images made over the course of 2019–2026. The book spans the artist’s work in painting, sculpture, drawing, mixed-media installation, and collaborative artmaking practices and features original writing by Sháńdíín Brown (Diné), Erika Mei Chua Holum, Kristin Delzell, Julian Markussen (Yurok/Diné), and Laura Phipps.
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ISBN 978-1-953189-24-0May 2026, English, 9 x 12 in., 160 pages, full color, softcoverEdition of 400Design: Sming Sming Books Saif Azzuz (b. 1987; lives and works in Pacifica, California) is a Libyan-Yurok artist who looks to the land in a moment marked by fleeting ecologies and environmental catastr...