Maree Makom

Stone
Upon a barrel of cement standing on a half-built
roof a man rests for his evening smoke. His gaze
gathered inward and his hand limp, he absentmindedly
scrapes the roof’s floor, back and forth,
with a grey pebble, the light behind him flooding
the concrete and plaster with murky rusty red.
Beyond the electricity line slumped from the edge
of a metal pole, and which curves-softens the hard
geometry of the image, is revealed-concealed the
translucent face of a second man at the heart of
the refugee camp’s mosaic of brown-pink-gold
stains fading in the last glow of the day.
Video Recording Site
Deheishe, a refugee camp near Bethlehem,
established in 1948 as temporary housing for
3,000 refugees, and occupied today by about
12,000 people living in less than one square
kilometer
Video Recording Occasion
1998. Production of a video piece by L. and R.
Characters
Anonymous