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100 & Two Winters in Exodus

Ruba Asi
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Is a tapestry depicting the promenade of the Jerusalemite time, it demonstrates alternating, unsettled and reciprocal acts of collective and solitary walks.  Its understanding of the 'place of time' is not resolved and definite, reference to time is established through the sensitivity of a circular timeclock, which does not acknowledge of the indifferent and metric measurement of time.  Thereby differentiating between 'chronological distance' and the event of 'Time'.  It narrates a two way story of the displacement, misplacement and placement of peoplescapes, commemorating paradox but equally similar notions of departure, arrival, settlement or exodus, with Jerusalem standing still in the melancholy of its backdrop.

Herein, time is the material of events, and is not a uniform and sedentary milieu running down a one way boulevard, the very absolute directionality of time undergoes an implicit gaze illustrating that chronological distance (which is in essence blank or empty time yet to be filled with happening) may be aligned to a linear ruler, whilst 'Time' acquires a certain reciprocality, and can be in the evolvement of memory exist as a deputy of place.  This Jerusalemite timeline possesses the spatial qualities of allocated and shifted addresses of events and geography, it is a multidirectional passage, that personifies time, allows for the overlaid coexistential overlap of different, parallel or tangential, and intersecting lifetimes thus producing a playful theatre of juxtaposed or layered time that narrates a two-dimensional history, continually rewinding its Diaspora till completion.  The futre and the past intertwine at the meeting points that circulate this 'Time', the womb delivering this 'beginningend' suggests Jerusalem as its time of happening, whilst deploying the present as a passive spectator.  Return occurs both to an actuality of a Jerusalem and to the time of Jerusalem that had been.  Further implying that the time in Jerusalem is particular to its being, when its ingrained inhabitants are uprooted form its body, there arise two times, one which it narrates in solitude and another that is recited by them away from her for when they meet.

 

Keywords: Circular Time, Reciprocality, Peoplescape, Beginningends, Reqinding Diaspora, Two-Dimensional History, Jerusalemite Clock.

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