Until the age of 56 the thought of settling down in a place like Israel didn’t even cross my mind. I had visited the area, but it was on a business trip, even though I had some personal interest in the residents of what then used to be Palestine and their way of life. I remember that when the ship sailed from the Haifa harbor and someone beside me said it’s good to be going home, I nodded in consent to myself and didn’t pay any attention to the notion of what might happen if one day I’d have to live here. So when on a hot august day in ’87 I found myself in the blazing hot, not air-conditioned office of a Nazareth garage waiting for one of the boys to finish working on my car – which turned out to have a worn out axle ceil – I asked myself what the hell I was doing here and how I got here. For a moment it seemed to me that the time since I saw the waters surrounding the western beaches of Israel once again, at the age of fifty six, had gone by while I was asleep. It wasn’t just the heat that led me to these thoughts, which would seem illogical to me at any other time; and it wasn’t only the fact that the office I was waiting in had no air conditioning, just a ventilator that was merely pushing the soot of the cars back outside and not cooling the air at all, it was also a phrase from a Wordsworth poem I had stumbled upon when paging through a pile of newspapers on the small table that separated between me and the other waiting men:  Â
Image on the Absent, which might be described as a fictional life writing, seeks after the right assemblage of visual qualities that can depict a persona. This project exists in its Hebrew version in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art library and was exhibited in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The project is inspired by notorious Adolf Eichmann, here a protagonist exploring his own image through self-revelatory confessions. These confessions are received and reproduced by a female sex worker.
About the author
was born in the 1980s in Tel Aviv Jaffa. Studied fine art, cultural studies and gender studies for my Bachelor and Masters degree. I am married, raising twins, write, edit and involved with minorities rights activism. view profile
Published on January 01, 2021
10000 words
Genre: Time Travel Romance
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