Shimon Attie quotes
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“I think of my work as a kind of peeling back of the wallpaper of today to reveal the histories buried underneath.”
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“My intention is to create opportunities for reflections and meditations on history.”
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“There's this presence of these missing people and this lost community that I felt but could not see, and that was a very strange dissonance for me.”
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“I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.”
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“Simply because something is not visible it doesn't mean that it is not there.”
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“I use contemporary media to reanimate sites and places with images of their own lost histories.”
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Source : Song: Almost Lover, Album: One Cell in the Sea, 2007
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Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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“Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.”
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“Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one Have limits to its mercy; God has none.”
Source : Adelaide Anne Procter, Varla Ventura (2012). “The Ghost in the Picture Room: Paranormal Parlor, A Weiser Books Collection”, p.16, Weiser Books
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“I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do.”