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I start going east. The journey is endless. I have made many notes, on a napkin with a faded rose in one corner; Journey, endless waiting, transportation, describe the gate to the checkpoint: at night it opened as a futuristic version of a gap in the concrete wall ready to absorb us, late at night it seemed to be defective and needed four soldiers to open it manually.
I took this pen from you, and I don’t like it. I don’t even like this connection to you. I let go of all emotions and let myself recount details from an unreal and disturbing reality where dots on a napkin in a cafe become the moments I have experienced in a very short time.
Suddenly the ink seeps through the thin paper and dissolves the words on the other side – I am on my own, slowly drinking my coffee, and looking out of the window.
I start going east, 2012
8 sheets of Plexiglas (70 x 100 cm each), sandblasted text, inkjet prints
Four fragmented memories of a place are gathered together in the text and photo installation I start going east. The place is not named explicitly in the texts, but can be interpreted as the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The work’s protagonist reflects upon experiences and encounters that take the viewer deeper into the unknown and at times the surreal. The texts, presented as sandblasted foil-text on four sheets of Plexiglas, mix the autobiographical with fiction. They appear to levitate in front of a wall, behind which surfaces in four shades of green are mounted under Plexiglas, one for each of the texts.
This work was supported by the Danish Arts Council.