Maree Makom

Language
The short paragraphs were already typed in the right column of a printed chart, in the left
column of which L. and R. now needed to write a fitting visual interpretation to the dream
texts that would guide the video recording in Al-Khalil and in the refugee camp. And so, with
an enthusiasm that will soon be redirected, refined, deepened and ultimately paralyzed by the
encounter with the despair and dream of those whose image was as yet still compliant and
malleable—before, that is, R.’s texts were altogether discarded and abandoned—the following
few sentences were scribbled:
Duchamp’s door (close=open)
A projection backwards of a building being destroyed
Stones being thrown / marking a border (the game of Salt Fish)
Birds flying backwards
A prohibition to look up
A huge expanse is a small expanse (far=near)
The act of drawing videotaped and then projected backwards
Reverse the cutting of Möbius strips
A shadow not yours. A reflection without a source
Waiting