The Hysterical Gearswitch
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HANI SALIH ︎
Where to begin? I have asked myself this a dozen times, gazing at a blank page. As if I needed to find the one, the only sentence that would give me entry into writing. Remove all doubts in one fell swoop - a sort of key. The meaning is sustained in the ooh and ah of a vowel on its way out. The word pertaining to the body. To ask 'why write' is to ask why breathe.
Contributed to and designed a collective publication as part of the FIELDNOTES Evening School programme.
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