Ahurei
115 photographs taken from my collection of 20th century vernacular photography are paired with accompanying texts reflecting on the fragments of Heraclitus. The project uses the lingua franca of e-commerce to host concerns of memory, time, relation, value and canon-making. The ambiguity of the surviving fragments from Heraclitus’ sole lost work On Nature, are echoed in the enigmatic images collected during travels.
The Prologue:
They find themselves downstream from Heraclitus, believing Jalal Toufic that every name in history is I, and with whispered hands arrange fragments into gifts of constellation.
Notes on viewing:
The work is best experienced on a desktop monitor, read sequentially, and scored by the Mande Variations by Toumani Diabaté.
(this was formerly on its own site which I took down and archived on an unlisted page on ritualsintime.space)
It scatters and it gathers