![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Piles of discarded plastic refuse burning after the harvest in the outskirts of the Mivtaḥim (lit.He was some kind of war hero, but now he spends his days alienating the people he loves, especially his stepdaughter, Rose ( Annabeth Gish), who sees and hears everything but doesn't quite understand it all. Outskirts of the Arab village of al-Dreijāt, established in the nineteenth century, but not recognized by the State of Israel until 2004 Latitude: 31° 8' 7" N / Longitude: 35° 12' 25" E, November 22, 2011Įvaporation ponds at the Arad Phosphate Mine Latitude: 30° 53' 60" N / Longitude: 34° 45' 53" E, October 9, 2011ĭemolished remains of a Bedouin home and fenced area within the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development experimental site Latitude: 31° 13' 24" N / Longitude: 34° 24' 0" E, October 10, 2011 Ofakim (lit., “horizons”) city expansion grid, showing major roadways and plot delineation. Preparations for planting the Jewish National Fund (JNF) Ambassador Forest at the site of the former homes of the Abu Jāber, Abu Mdīghem, and Abu Freiḥ families, of al-ʽAraqīb Latitude: 31° 18' 2" N / Longitude: 34° 36' 52" E, October 9, 2011 Remnants of evacuated Bedouin homestead and military earthworks in a live-fire zone, outskirts of Qabbūʽa ‘unrecognized’ village Latitude: 31° 25' 0" N / Longitude: 34° 27' 51" E, October 10, 2011ĭecommissioned British-era munitions storage bases near the Gaza border Latitude: 31° 0' 60" N / Longitude: 34° 43' 4" E, October 9, 2011Ību Asa family homestead in the vicinity of the recognized Bedouin town of Bīr Haddāj Latitude: 31° 0' 60" N / Longitude: 34° 43' 4" E, October 9, 2011Ību Asa family homestead in the vicinity of the recognized Bedouin town of Bīr Haddāj Latitude: 31° 21' 7" N / Longitude: 34° 46' 27" E, October 9, 2011 Remnants of evacuated Bedouin homestead and military earthworks in a live-fire zone, outskirts of Qabbūʽa ‘unrecognized’ village Latitude: 31° 12' 45" N / Longitude: 35° 11' 60" E, October 4, 2011 #Desert bloom archive#In studying these photographs, the desert comes to us as a kind of archive of what has happened on its shifting surfaces over time what is hidden and sealed within its dunes, and the efforts to erase the traces of its long and often violent history. What becomes clear is the degree to which the alteration and devastation of the Negev has gone hand-in-hand with violence against the Bedouins. They expose the transformation of the landscape caused by mining, military training camps, the clearance and appropriation of the desert by reforestation, the enforced evacuation and demolition of “unrecognized” Bedouin villages and the expansion of Israeli settlements. Tracing the consequences of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion’s dream of settling the Negev and making the “desert bloom,” the aerial photographs that comprise Fazal Sheikh’s Desert Bloom project reveal the many forces and actions that have blossomed to displace and erase the Bedouins who have lived in the desert for generations. Desert Bloom is the second project in The Erasure Trilogy ![]()
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