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.
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...
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"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 ...)
ReplyDeleteoh Jacky, i thank you... i am both surprised and honoured that you like my photographs...
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