Sharing Stories, 2016

This group of objects is gleaned from the short stories of Sadat Hassan Manto about the partition of India in 1947, and the documentary writing of Ben Ehrenreich from his travels in the West Bank. The objects are crucial players in my experience of their stories, and serve as icons of those experiences. Distorted, magnified, abstracted (as all stories are), they are witness to, and documents of the extraordinary stories of ordinary people in extreme, hostile environments. 

Photo Credits: Shay Ben Efraim