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first thanks for sharing this. i can read off from what you wrote about the images something of the complexity that attends showing them. as images, they've got a documentary value that i think you underplay a little by pushing them into the underlying conflicts that you've been through. which is inevitable i suppose---i mention it mostly to say that sometimes it's easier to be open about yourself in work (in most any medium) if you assume (or create. or claim for yourself) some distance between the representation and what is represented. i've found anyway. you can say and show the same sort of things and not feel quite so exposed personally.
at the same time it's the exposure that makes this brave.
but there's many ways to get to the same thing.
second, i've been in this place too. so it resonates. what i see in it is something of the narrow focus. i can almost see your attention moving in tiny slices through the space, not really seeing it, only seeing it to the extent that it's part of a specific interaction a specific sightline. i associate it with a kind of depression that i fight with sometimes.
for me anyway, the point at which it's dissipated is the point at which i start to see the space in bigger frames. the writing indicates you're there.
but i dont associate this particularly with an economic situation. i've been in a lot of different ones and this space has turned up in a fair number. but maybe i project. hard to know.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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