The Sea Is Here

„An absence – be it loss, or lack, or impossibility, a person, a place, a time – is often felt strongly enough that it becomes, in itself, a presence. To observe and describe such presence – in either oneself or others – is the aim of this project. What’s your most tender, blinding, ticklish, awkward, treasured not-there? It’s a delicate question of the kind asked late in late-night conversations, and only rarely of a stranger; there are people whose work, minds, personalities we find magnetic and to whom, for myriad reasons, we won’t get close enough to ask what we’d like to know. It’s not about an inability to connect with the other – the world is enormous, time short, our attention a flashlight, and there’s but a handful of spare batteries.“
This was a shortcut: an attempt to ask what we couldn’t ask…