Interview // “Openings out of the Overlooked”: A Conversation Between Jenny Xie & Paul Hlava Ceballos
“What are ways of looking deeply, at a photograph or other archival filament, that allow us in the present to re-enter the past?”
“What are ways of looking deeply, at a photograph or other archival filament, that allow us in the present to re-enter the past?”
[Wading into a new decade (ten miles of jungle, twenty+ river crossings, one night in a cave, chimes at the altar of the Highway of Horror, then lunch by the sea) forty-five years after the exodus]
I’m lost in time, in waves of light seizing the prints, watching my own death before I existed;
I speak to him, sometimes, like a will against abstraction.
In conversation with Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
a nostalgia-scented chemical whisper / silvering up the atmosphere
knowing that the mask is more an image
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead
i’m a pretty face with just one pretty eye. / my self-worth what? its weight in storm.
If it mattered it mattered only because / it was our constant companion
Hasn’t there been a moment you never wanted to leave?