Neda Razavipour
Edge of Chaos
2015
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Ghazaal GhazanfariThe
Display of Ruin
A
photograph scratches and wounds. I imagine a thin seep of blood running through
it—through the gentleness and sheen it has lost. Its sharp edges split the skin
and the pain arrives. Destruction is familiar; the wound is old and the burn
runs deep.
A photograph is a partner to death. It dissects memory and stands as evidence
of nothingness. It reaches the end of its performance, yet it does not abandon
its remnants; instead, it preserves them within a clear frame—the cast-offs of
time and life.
A photograph goes nowhere; it remains within itself. It holds fast to its true
mission: enclosed on all four sides by its colorless frame, it does not let the
leftover and fragmented memories collapse or spill beyond the boundary of
sight.
A photograph is the embodiment of being—a fractured, smudged trace of
presence. The magic of the image binds it to the mind, reshaping it anew;
placing it again in hands, in the corner of a cupboard, beside a table—amid
life. There, where it lasts only in memory.