Case XXviii
This singular image exposes the conceivable catalysts of the creative process of an image maker. Case XXVIII continues to reflect upon the theme of ‘self portrait as an artist’ that started off with Case VII. This visual translation has its origin in the texts Things I don't want to know by Deborah Levy (2013). A powerful feminist response to George Orwell's essay Why I write (1946) about the peculiarities of a writer's life and the act of writing. As an image-maker I relate to this particular discourse and by consequence found refuge in her convincing commentary on authorship.
“I realized that the question I had asked myself while writing this book was (as surgeons say) very close to the bone: ‘What do we do with knowledge that we cannot bear to live with? What do we do with the things we do not know?’ I did not know how to get the work, my writing, into the world. I did not know how to open the window like an orange. If anything, the window had closed like an axe on my tongue. If this was to be my reality, I did not know what to do with it.”
