{"id":527,"date":"2017-01-02T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T13:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/portfolio-items\/%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%93%d7%91%d7%a8-%d7%a9%d7%98%d7%a8%d7%9d-%d7%98%d7%99%d7%98%d7%90%d7%95-%d7%90%d7%95%d7%aa%d7%95\/"},"modified":"2017-01-26T09:55:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:55:19","slug":"the-as-yet-unswept-desert","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/portfolio-items\/the-as-yet-unswept-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"The As-Yet Unswept Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"

The As-Yet Unswept Desert<\/h2><\/div>

2014-2017, Mitzpe Ramon<\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/i><\/i><\/span>Sparkling glass shards and plate fragments, dried plants and bones, bullet shells and cannon cartridges: dregs of household, military, and desert refuse accumulating on the periphery of Mitzpe Ramon, on the edge of the Ramon Crater.<\/span><\/a><\/h4><\/div>
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At a waste heap on the periphery of Mitzpe Ramon, in the heart of the desert at the edge of the Ramon Crater, there are deposits of refuse: rusty cans, glass shards, ceramic bits, scraps of household objects, empty ammunition cartridges, pieces of asbestos \u2026\u00a0\u00a0 among them dry desert plants awake in after-rain green and flowering, bones, stones, and other surprising elements that create local memento mori<\/em> preserved by and within the desiccation, existential witness to the encounter between originary landscape and a heap of unrefined contemporary reality.<\/p>\n

My work at this site is ongoing, and includes still-life photographs capturing the triangle of desert\/home\/military that is expressed in physical presences of objects and panoramas of the locale, starting with the desert landscape, continuing on to a military base and extending to the town\u2019s neighborhoods, reflecting a kind of contemporary silt of existential elements in a horizontal archeology mirroring of our lives. The process of onsite photography becomes something like detective work. As noted by the American photographer Edward Weston, \u201cthe camera sees more than the eye\u201d, so that subsequent viewing reveals details and connections unseen in real-time experience.<\/p>\n

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“The Unswept Floor”<\/p>\n

The scattered objects connect associatively to the ancient mosaic \u201cThe Unswept Floor\u201d from the second century C.E., attributed to Herakleitos as a copy of an original by Sosus of Pergamon (second century B.C.E.).\u00a0\u00a0 The mosaic depicts food remnants or perhaps a collection of zoological and botanical objects. The objects are arranged as a display of vestiges of the live world that have undergone the grinder of human usage, mediated by the artist\u2019s view in a process of identification, sorting, and categorization.\u00a0\u00a0 The photographs of the \u201cas-yet-unswept desert\u201d invite a similar process of observation, including and integrating astonishment and equanimity; feelings of familiarity and estrangement, certainty and doubt; identification and dislocation of connections; prophecy and memory; personal reflection and outward contemplation of social, environmental, and cultural spaces.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2014-2017, Mitzpe Ramon, photography<\/p>\n

Sparkling glass shards and plate fragments, dried plants and bones, bullet shells and cannon cartridges: dregs of household, military, and desert refuse accumulating on the periphery of Mitzpe Ramon, on the edge of the Ramon Crater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":622,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[17],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-main-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lilacsasson.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}