Bidoun issue 17: FLOWERS

In this issue, Bidoun, along with a cast of the bold and the beautiful, the dead-too-young and the undying, the dapper and the freakish, the innocent and the guilty, dives headfirst into a bed of flowers. In an artist’s project, Vartan Avakian considers his namesake, Vartan the Brave, patron saint of the Armenian nation, who, oddly enough, was kind of a loser. FLOWERS also includes stories from the short, sweet life of Sanaa Mehaidley and the slightly longer, bittersweet life of Princess Di. Not to mention an appearance from the forty-fourth US president, as seen through the lens of Hawaiian nationalism.