Annie, Beatrice, Julia und du, von der ich nur weiß, dass du nicht das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrgehänge bist und auch nie wirklich sein wolltest.
„- how alive they are! They have their whole lives before them; but also they are dead (today) , they are then already dead (yesterday) . At the limit, there is no need to represent a body in order for me to experience this vertigo of time defeated.“ ―
Ich erwische meinen Blick, ganz ungefragt und männlich*, auf eure seit hundert Jahre verrotteten Körper und erinnere mich.
„To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder – a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.“ ―
*Haunting.