An Le aka An Le Studio (Vietnamese, b. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, based Brooklyn, NY, USA) - Scar, Photography
Tomoko M. - ๅฒ้ ใขใใฎๆฑ :: Monet's Pond (2023)
Yet another moss appreciation post ๐ซถ
Dundee, Scotland.
Mona Hatoum, Grater Divide, 2002 Mild steel, 204 cm x variable width and depth
Mona Hatoum is a Palestinian artist. From Artformโs 2021 Rape is a Border:
Take Grater Divide, 2002. The work is ridiculous: a standing metal cheese grater more than six feet high. Installed in a gallery, it works as a room divider, but the holes make privacy impossible. The wall is a weapon rather than a shield: A person undressing behind it could be cut as well as peeped at, opened up by sharp edges made for shredding. The work is not only an enlargement of a grater, however, but also a miniaturization of a divide, prototyping, in particular, the West Bank barrier Israel had begun to construct on appropriated Palestinian land. A person traveling through a border checkpoint may be asked to undressโstrip searches are not prohibited by Israeli law. In the United States, they have been allowed ever since the 1985 Supreme Court case United States v. Rosa Elvira Montoya de Hernandez, which originated with the cavity search of Hernandez, who was traveling to Los Angeles from Colombia. In both countries, the coercive invasion of bodies is more likely to be visited on people of color, who are disproportionately singled out for selective or heightened โscreening.โ This wordโs very meaning is reframed, or enlarged, by the Grater Divide. Gloria Anzaldรบa, the queer Chicana theorist of Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), called the United StatesโMexico border an โopen woundโ where โthe Third World grates against the first and bleeds.โ All borders are graters: not solid walls but permeable ones whose pores are sharpened to pierce what passes through.
[ID: an object that resembles a room divider or folding privacy screen with three panels. each panel is one side of a box grater; one that slices, one that grates or finely grates, and one that shreds. there are metal arcs atop the outer two panels where the handle would be on a box grater. the sharp side of the grater is pointing towards the viewer. end ID]
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Wistman's Wood, Dartmoor by Dr Stanislav Edward