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More excerpts from the extremely beautiful “Subjective Atlas of Palestine“ project. View the full publication via link.

About: The Dutch designer Annelys de Vet invited Palestinian artists, photographers and designers to map their country as they see it. Given their closeness to the subject, this has resulted in unconventional, very human impressions of the landscape and the architecture, the cuisine, the music and the poetry of thought and expression. The drawings, photographs, maps and narratives made for this atlas reveal individual life experiences, from preparing chickpeas to a manual on water pipe smoking, from historic dress to modern music. Pages containing humorous and caustic newspaper cartoons and invented Palestinian currency followed by colourful cultural diaries and moving letters from prisoners. All in all, the contributions give an entirely different angle on a nation in occupied territory. In this subjective atlas it is the Palestinians themselves who show the disarming reverse side of the black-and-white image generally resorted to by the media.

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Ana Mendieta, Untitled (from the Fetish Series), 1977

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Byun-Chul Han, The Disappearance of Rituals

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Fierce Pussy Poster (2008)

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Spring by Hajin Bae

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Alexander McQueen for Givenchy Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1999-2000

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The opening page of Finnegans Wake illustrated by Paul Klee

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@pinkdishco on ig

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Leather belt, with keyring attached, used by State Registered Mental Nurse, England, mid 20th century

Security and practicality are behind the design of this sturdy leather belt with keyring. It was used on a psychiatric ward at Farnborough Hospital, now the Princess Royal University Hospital, in Kent, England. The key ring consists of a soldered metal bracket. This cannot be taken off the belt. There is also a metal loop in the middle of the belt over which the keyring cannot pass. This ensured the keys could not be snatched from or slip off the belt. The belt and keys were used between 1940 and 1970. They represent the large public mental hospitals that defined psychiatric care after the Second World War and the rise of the National Health Service. We know these keys were used by a State Registered Mental Nurse. This further highlights the fact such mental hospitals were government-regulated organisations rather than old-fashioned asylums. The staff had to meet professional standards. However, controversial medical treatments such as insulin coma therapy, electroshock and frontal lobotomy were common. They were seen as inhumane and brutal institutions, more like prisons than hospitals.

Science Museum

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“Yet I have been pondering not the English, prosecutorial witness, but the Arabic. In this, our, language, the verb to witness comes from the root شهد . This is also the source of the much-maligned word شهيد, shaheed, which means, literally, witnesser, but is often translated as martyr. It is a word with many folds of meaning and history. It carries connotations not only of seeing, but of presence and proximity. To be a witness is to make contact, to be touched, and to bear the marks of this touch.

Shaheed is the word Palestinians use to describe those lost to Israeli violence, a word which has drawn condemnation from American universities and press, who once again presume to know the meaning of Arabic-rooted terms, without bothering to investigate. They allege the word martyr glorifies death for death’s sake. But in this context, it should be read as honoring the truth these brutalized bodies speak. Their flesh, marked by colonial violence, makes visible the wild injustice they endured. Which is to say, their martyrdom tells us the truth about our world.”

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Not my best / based on a story my mom told me about the first car crash she saw

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Christian Applegate

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Refaat Alareer, If I must die, written in 2011, published online on November 1, 2023

If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so that a child, somewhere in Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad who left in a blaze— and bid no one farewell not even to his flesh not even to himself— sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love If I must die let it bring hope let it be a tale

(transcript by the American Friends Service Committee)

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The situation of the Congo Genocide is complicated because we are all implicated in it. We can’t ascribe it to a foreign policy state interest as we can regarding Palestine. It is something we, as consumers, all have a hand in and given the ubiquity of the resources involved, a lot of us are caught off of guard by this premonition of the type of wars to come. This is that nasty intersection of neo-colonialism and hyper capitalism that pits the Global South against the Global North. It’s a war of sustaining a way of life means imposing slavery and genocide on others. This is an instance of global capitalism and hyper consumption as a lifestyle and convenience is being pitted against the humanity of those we deem expendable.

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Four of Swords. Art by Yve Lepkowski, from Anecdotes Tarot.

Time is taller than Space is wide

This card creates a means to order the world. It shares a song with VII. Waltz of the 101st Lightborne, but focuses on the achievement and vision of time-travel rather than the consequences shown in the trump. The image is a 2-dimensional projection of 3-dimensional projection of a hypercube, one of the most famous 4-dimensional figures. The Four of Swords signifies theoretical scientific and mathematical pursuits, and success in those fields.

The Four links to the Seven of Swords, which expands in the four cardinal directions.