Maree Makom

Inside
The books were already packed in cardboard
boxes that were piling one on top of another in the
front room. In the nex t room L. was wandering
among residues of living and of life which needed
to be folded, filed, scrubbed; laboring to silence
within them the marks of body and of time, to let
go of the place that inhabited her, with all its
details and habits, one heart-finger after another,
with effort, as of a tight-fastened palm of a
sleeping baby.
Recalled Location
Florentine, a working class neighborhood in
the south of Tel Aviv
Recalled time
1999. The video project has been completed,
and L.’s departure to the U.S. is pending.
Characters
L. - An Israeli videographer residing in a three
room apartment in Florentine