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- Li-Young Lee from Furious Versions
Is history a distant horizon, where the sun has set on a long lost shore of craggy rocks, wind-swept and petrified trees? Or, does, as Walter Benjamin suggests, the horizon of past occurrence lie not somewhere far behind us, but rather in the here and now? The past is as inert as a fossilized forest, yet here we are standing and living on the geological sediment that has collected over time. It is a tenuous balance between looking back onto the past, being present in life as it is occurring, and looking forward towards the future. We are caught between making sense of things, interpreting them, and deciding how we will be in the world.
((angela beallor is a writer and visual artist from cleveland, ohio. she currently lives in brooklyn, new york. she completed an mfa in photography from bard-icp in 2008 and now works as a nanny and video editor for a non-profit.
she spends a lot of time (thinking) and (feeling). often about exchange, love, ethics, history, healing, the lands, silences, quietude, and constellations.
she is a member-artist of 25CPW (www.25cpw.org).
forthcoming:: from here to the corner: a reading series is a new series of writers reading organized by angela and her writing group.
this blog is a collection of recent and past writings and visual work. it will be. an experimental reflective exchanging place.))
hence the need for reparations, haha. the past only exists has far as our collective and individual consciousnesses allow it, ergo (you like that? our present consciousness and societal paradigms are not only shaped by the past but dictate the ways in which history exists itself. the two play off one another, no?