This series of three posters are from the on-going publishing project Water With Water. Water With Water is an experimental publishing project initiated by Nathan Ross Davis & Arcadian Studio with support from VCUQatar. Publications, ephemera and projects of W/W/W speculate in visual form at the intersection of Gulf culture and contemporary art and design.

Each of the three posters are offset printed in CMYK along with two pantone spot colours. The posters are in a booklet form that eventually fold out into the 98 x 67 cm posters.

The first poster of the series titled "Everything is Going to be Okay" visualises a cloaked figure that assures viewers that everything is going to be okay. The space around the figure on the opposite side wonders howwwwww?

The second poster titled "Sadu Scraps" is made up of scraps of patterns that are based on carpets from the Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum in Doha, Qatar. Composed of many digital bits of a time gone by, the design is a gesture to the past that embraces uncertainty about the future of traditional arts, cultures, and globalisation.

The final poster titled "Ha Ha Ha" consists of laughing translations that were taken from vintage Mickey Mouse comics that are common in the Gulf. They also make use of the traditional flower motif that originated on mattress covers. This pattern is now in common use for a variety of domestic products in the Gulf. These references combine to produce a positive, light-hearted visual language.

This series of posters have been sold at the I Never Read Art Book Fair in Basel (http://www.ineverread.com/) in June 2017 as well as the Art Book China Book Fair (http://artbookinchina.com/) in August 2017. The posters are also on the shelves of the Neurotitan book shop in Berlin. Lastly, the posters were also a part of the Contemporary Art Qatar exhibition in Berlin and was amongst 294 works from 73 artists looking at the rapid transformation of Qatar and its society.

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