FOLD is a series of 26 paired pages of a picture book that responds to the consequences of crises in the Middle East, crises in photography, and crises in representation.  The pages are united by a lower band of sand traversed by twisting taffy, a visual metaphor for our inability to extricate ourselves from an intractable conflict we helped to create.

Luxury of Memory was an illustrated paper on FOLD that was presented in July 2006 at the University of Leed’s “The Afterlife of Memory: Memoria/Historia/Amnesia” conference, organized by the Centre for Cultural Analysis, History & Theory in England.

Fold was exhibited in Gallery 175 in Seoul, Korea in May 2006.  Portions of the series were included in After, curated by Laura Donaldson at Boston Center for the Arts in February/March, 2006.  Several pages are reproduced on the cover of and in the “Works of Witness” issue of Hayden’s Ferry Review #38, published by Arizona State University.

Numbers refer to page numbers:

1-2.	Sand Nigger with Watermelon Taffy
3.	Leash After-image of the leash held by Lynddie England at Abu Ghraib.
4.	Still Life Last breath of a dying goat in a parched land, with a dream of daisies plucked.
5.	Metal Made Flesh in an instrument of devastation — excavating consciousness in an altered geography, an altered photography, an altered veracity — changing the borders, felling the peace.
6.	Quarry The wound of crushing exposed.
7-8.	Refrain I and Refrain II
9.	This Land Is My Land, This Land Is My Land I
10.	This Land Is My Land, This Land Is My Land II
11.	First Request
12.	Spring Preening
13-14.	Somewhere Over Geneva
15-16.	Runaway I and Runaway II
17.	White Wash The whitewashing of torture, the veiling of atrocity, the black made white.  The promises of false consequences, false consciousness that are too true.  The sand turned night.  Mephistopheles’ wing turned lead.  The hawk’s wing hovers.
18.	Overturn Truth overturned. Regime overturned. Vehicles mangled. The ethereal dissolved, feathers turned razors, spirits slicing their way to heaven.
19-20.	Recoil
21.	Helm
22.	Black Gold
23.	Snare
24-25.	Lyre and Shake