would the walls
not scream in their ears?
february 2020
class w/ Yaakov Israel
visual re-contextualization
“[Lifta is] The only historic, intact Palestinian village. Due to its abandonment in 1948, as result of historic events, it has never been re-occupied, or demolished, thus preserving in the most authentic way all the elements of a hilly, East Mediterranean village. All other similar villages were whether destroyed or continued to be inhabited thus evolved and changed losing most of their authenticity and integrity. The typology of houses in this village presents a variety of traditional housing with no parallels in their state of conservation, authenticity, integrity and variety.”— from the Tentative List proposed by the Permanent Delegation of Israel to UNESCO.
7 fiber-based silver prints, inkjet printed cutouts, rubber cement glue.