Friday, March 30, 2007

Emotional Landscapes

My grandma died on Tuesday. It wasn't a surprise, it's been coming for a long time, but that doesn't necessarily make it easier for my mom. I'm mostly sad for her; I didn't really know my grandma. But I just don't know how to handle myself when my mom is sobbing on my shoulder because she "[doesn't] have a mommy anymore."

Thursday, March 1, 2007

Face2Face







photo from http://www.jr-art.net/


As an undercover photographer, JR transforms his pictures into posters and makes open space photo galleries out of our streets... Using a camera he found once in the subway, JR finds inspiration in informal encounters he makes following his travels and his intuitions.

His latest project: Face2Face.

After traveling through Israel and Palestine with friend Marco, the pair concluded that Israelis and Palestinians "look the same; they speak almost the same language, like twin brothers raised in different families."

So they decided to display this idea by taking portraits of Israelis and Palestinians doing the same activities, making the faces, etc., and blowing up these photographs to an incredible size.
This Sunday, March 4th, they will install these images on both sides of of the Israeli/Palestinian separation wall, with hopes that the photographs will encourage more understanding between the Israeli and Palestinian people.

face2faceproject.com

thanks to Abbie for the tip