Meanwhiles #3

A Simple Wind Blows Through the Olive Tree Orchards

Meanwhiles is a series dedicated to the things that happen while the rest of life continues, opting for the useless, the quiet, the hidden, the careful. Looking towards the ways artists have celebrated or participated in this, excavating the small moments I’d have looked over otherwise, spending time with ideas I wouldn’t have otherwise. The meanwhile becomes space in space, time in time. Its like a transition, a jump cut, without ever going anywhere. A look down, a newly noticed mark, a found object, an isolated color. Meanwhiles go on and on, and they operate outside the familiar in the things, the moments when the familiar ceases to be that, by choice or otherwise.

This week is look at the rhetoric around complexity and simplicity in regard to the current incarnation of Israel’s 75 year occupation of Palestine, to dig in to why it is dehumanizing and is a part of a larger project of dehumanization of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government. However, I also urge you to read …