Etel Adnan was born on February 24, 1925 in Beirut and died in Paris on November 14, 2021. She was a Lebanese American artist and writer. Since the 1960s, Etel Adnan had been making accordion-fold books, or leporellos, that meld visual and verbal observation, fusing the artist’s parallel practices in painting and writing as she transcribed poems and records unfolding landscapes and urban spaces.