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Jun 05, 2017 @ 17:13 CET
Dear Ivan, I imagine those lines in your images as an installation, as actual layers on the land below, an added dimension. Altering a site of trauma, a site with nothing left to see, by adding...
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Jun 13, 2017 @ 18:31 EST
Dear Anton, I’m staying in a rickety long-term occupancy hotel in Montreal, in a room with walls painted too many times, the stink of tobacco, and obscure violence done to the electrical outlets....
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Jun 22, 2017 @ 9:30 CET
Dear Ivan, The irony of ruins that shall be preserved forever is in stark contrast with the deeply ingrained Japanese understanding of the impermanence of things, the circle of life, the passing of...
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Jun 25, 2017 @ 19:14 EST
Dear Anton, Of commemoration strategies, the Ise shrine suggests an algorithmic approach. Create a code for us to reenact and embody, in the way of the pilgrimage or the ritual. The instructions are...
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Jul 03, 2017 @ 11:59 CET
Dear Ivan, I am just home from driving most of the Polish-Czech border, trying to find and photograph the blue skies above each of the 95 World War Two concentration camps of Groß-Rosen. The...
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Jul 04, 2017 @ 11:56 EST
Dear Anton, I’m in rural Pennsylvania, sitting by a window in a fieldstone cottage, in a hollow deep in the woods, in the precise location where my father died, seven years ago to the day. I’ve not...
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Jul 13, 2017 @ 14:01 CET
Dear Ivan, It seems as if a stage has been set in our conversation. I’m reminded of the master of all stage setting, Charles Chaplin, and specifically The Gold Rush. Seldom has there been a more...
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Jul 23, 2017 @ 15:23 EST
Dear Anton, A few nights ago I was on a ferry, crossing a shallow sound below a sky set with stars. The ferry navigated a narrow channel between sandbars and small islands, its way marked by red and...
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Jul 30, 2017 @ 18:19 CET
Dear Ivan, Perhaps sitting on a boat and watching the shore is a better perspective. Often I find myself wishing for more distance and less speed. Sometimes I stand on the shore, look out to the sea...
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Aug 16, 2017 @ 22:21 EST
Dear Anton, Whether we are in amusement parks visiting imaginary cities and castles, or in the museums and gardens that commemorate those who died in war, the carriage of our bodies is the same. We...
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