The Leavings of Leaves, May 2009, JBowring‘Leavings’ are melancholy doubled.
First, leavings are poignant actions: departures, abandonments, desertions.
And second, leavings are those things which are left, the remnants of something previously whole, detritus, residue.
Each has their own poignancy, and in some cases are intertwined in a narrative of displacement. There is implied in the residue -- whether it be a note, a trace, an object now lost -- a tender violence. Ruptures and cleavings are the subplots of leavings. The departure of things, of wholes, of lives, of loves, leaves the pain of residual stains, of that which remains.
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this post touches me so deeply, Jacky, that i can't even find my words to comment... everything that i obsess with is here, more beautifully written than i could ever do it myself, and such an impossibly refined image as well...
(i have never told you how much i like your dreamy and subdued pictures, have i?)
"tender violence", i won't forget this easily...
thank you.
Thanks Roxana ... to move someone is the most anyone can hope for with their words and their works. (And a fine compliment coming from a photographer who captures the most remarkable images ...)
oh Jacky, i thank you... i am both surprised and honoured that you like my photographs...
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