Tati El Mallah
Image & Archive
does not rot
standing again on fallen ground
samaki
Writing
Programming
CV
Wall vinyl, three prints (custom size), artist book.
After image the impression of a vivid image retained by the eye after stimulus has ceased. After life the impression of existence retained by the soul after life has ceased. Rupture the resolve to break through something once created.
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Figure 2
Gelatin silver print on resin coated paper
Cropped from 15.2 × 15.2 cm (6 × 6 in)
21.0 × 21.0 cm
Archival image
15.2 × 15.2 cm (6 × 6 in)
21.0 × 21.0 cm
I am learning to fall in love with precarity. Like many loves it is hardwork, and I am taking my time. This land we’re on is weak and full of hatred. Shifting plates under the foot, sinking soil, and it is dark here. Too dark. Still I close my eyes and fall back into the damp the wet and freezing, coming out the other side peppered in goose pimples in the frailer body of a younger self. I am at the edge of the pool shivering as my mother tells me she’s a mermaid, that my father found her on the shore of Andoni where the ocean thinned out into the river.