T H E F A L L O F
A N A M O R P H O S I S
PHOTOGRAPHS / RESEARCH
| 2018 - 2021 | Palestine
[selection]
Locations (in alphabetical order):
Akko, Balata refugee camp, Bethlehem, Dheisheh refugee camp, Duma (Dawabshe family house following settler arson attack), Hayfa, Al Khalil / Hebron, Jericho, Jerusalem (incl. The Israel Museum, with the ‘Nano-Bible’), Kalya/Dead Sea, Nablus, Qalandia refugee camp, Ramallah, Rawabi City, Tel Aviv
"(...) I am only my steps, and you are
both my compass and my chasm.
If I were another on the road, I would have
hidden my emotions in the suitcase, so my poem
would be of water, diaphanous, white,
abstract, and lightweight ... stronger than memory,
and weaker than dewdrops, and I would have said:
My identity is this expanse!
If I were another on the road, I would have said
to the guitar: Teach me an extra string!
Because the house is farther, and the road to it prettier—
that’s what my new song would say. Whenever
the road lengthens the meaning renews, and I become
two on this road: I ... and another!"
Mahmoud Darwish
"If I Were Another",
"The Butterfly's Burden" |1992
Locations (in alphabetical order):
Akko, Balata refugee camp, Bethlehem, Dheisheh refugee camp, Duma (Dawabshe family house following settler arson attack), Hayfa, Al Khalil / Hebron, Jericho, Jerusalem (incl. The Israel Museum, with the ‘Nano-Bible’), Kalya/Dead Sea, Nablus, Qalandia refugee camp, Ramallah, Rawabi City, Tel Aviv
Akko, Balata refugee camp, Bethlehem, Dheisheh refugee camp, Duma (Dawabshe family house following settler arson attack), Hayfa, Al Khalil / Hebron, Jericho, Jerusalem (incl. The Israel Museum, with the ‘Nano-Bible’), Kalya/Dead Sea, Nablus, Qalandia refugee camp, Ramallah, Rawabi City, Tel Aviv
"(...) I am only my steps, and you are
both my compass and my chasm.
If I were another on the road, I would have
hidden my emotions in the suitcase, so my poem
would be of water, diaphanous, white,
abstract, and lightweight ... stronger than memory,
and weaker than dewdrops, and I would have said:
My identity is this expanse!
If I were another on the road, I would have said
to the guitar: Teach me an extra string!
Because the house is farther, and the road to it prettier—
that’s what my new song would say. Whenever
the road lengthens the meaning renews, and I become
two on this road: I ... and another!"
Mahmoud Darwish
"If I Were Another",
"The Butterfly's Burden" |1992