Mine is a warm hole
with CHAOS CLAY, LUNA MAHOUX, RASHIYAH ELANGA, SHAMIRAN ISTIFAN, SHURUQ HARB, VALENTIN NOUJAÏM / invited by CAROLINE HONORIEN + LINE AJAN
24.04.23 - 06.05.23
The point now is that I found a home — or a hole in the ground, as you will. Now don’t jump to the conclusion that because I call my home a “hole” it is damp and cold like a grave; there are cold holes and warm holes. Mine is a warm hole. And remember, a bear retires to his hole for the winter and lives until spring; then he comes strolling out like the Easter chick breaking from its shell. I say all this to assure you that it is incorrect to assume that, because I’m invisible and live in a hole, I am dead. I am neither dead nor in a state of suspended animation. Call me Jack-the-Bear, for I am in a state of hibernation.
excerpt INVISIBLE MAN (1952), RALPH ELLISON
images SALIM SANTA LUCIA
The point now is that I found a home — or a hole in the ground, as you will. Now don’t jump to the conclusion that because I call my home a “hole” it is damp and cold like a grave; there are cold holes and warm holes. Mine is a warm hole. And remember, a bear retires to his hole for the winter and lives until spring; then he comes strolling out like the Easter chick breaking from its shell. I say all this to assure you that it is incorrect to assume that, because I’m invisible and live in a hole, I am dead. I am neither dead nor in a state of suspended animation. Call me Jack-the-Bear, for I am in a state of hibernation.
excerpt INVISIBLE MAN (1952), RALPH ELLISON
images SALIM SANTA LUCIA
