RESTE
• Hand-bound book, hard cover, 119 pages, 2017
Chapter 1 drifts through holiday pictures taken by my brother in Syria in the 1990s. Moments of stillness, an obsession for truchs, exploration of historical sites: all fragments of a country now mostly reduced to ruin after years of war. In these quiet scenes, something resists erasure. Something stays.
Chapter 2 turns to Kodachrome diapositives from the 1960s and 70s, from the time of my mother’s childhood, now ghosted by fungi. The original scenes dissolve, but the emulsion speaks another language, of time, of transformation, of the beauty that sometimes emerges when memory breaks open.