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Simone Fattal was born in Damascus and grew up in Lebanon. In she returned to Beirut and started painting. She participated in numerous shows during the ten years when life in Lebanon was still possible. In , fleeing the Civil War, she settled in California and founded the Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative and experimental literary work.

In , she returned to artistic practice by doing ceramic sculptures after enrolling at the Art Institute of San Francisco. In , she released a movie, Autoportrait , which has been shown worldwide in many film festivals.

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They are thick, bowed, cumbersome things—like the crusty paw of an elephant or the trunk of a vast tree ringed and ringed again by time. Bodies: they slump and sag and bend and bob. Time is the great conceit of the sculptures of Simone Fattal. Kneaded clay suggests the repeated touch of a human hand, but also summons up the ravages of time.

Figures look as old as the earth and yet they breathe. The dead speak to us, too: I once was a warrior.

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I once was a father. I once was master of this land. I once was I once was echoes again and again.