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There are things in ourselves for which we cannot find words. It seems like there is no exact word that punctuates the exact feeling that I have, at least in the pool of languages that I know. Tongue-tied, I struggle to speak, all the same, choosing not to explain it. Shoving the word deep down my throat, and burying it in my heart. I also can't explain why I felt so sad seeing the photograph of the Eiffel Tower yet unfinished. It was a weird photograph that made me look at nothing. It brought me to a strange timeline, to a past where I was certain of the future, which never happens in our lived experience. That dissonance made me just stare at the blank sky where there was nothing yet. At the same time, I felt melancholy, which I cannot explain. The photograph caught me and made me keep thinking about what it meant. A psychologist-artist said that the little things that didn't seem like a big deal hurt people the most, leaving internal wounds more than something external and large because they were never understood or shared. They lose their way out in the world, so they stay and carve the deepest. After letting the experience sit there for a while I realized what it meant, and I started to understand why I wanted to photograph all the things that I was making. I wanted a language. I wanted a word for something that didn't have a term out in the world. The photographs were alphabets and the sequence was a sentence. I wanted a way to put something that I felt that couldn't be addressed because there was no way to pinpoint it otherwise. Not to get over what I felt, not to feel catharsis, not to do anything else, but to put it into words. My photographs were the words, or at least that was my desire, to find my way out and be. The photographs stood there, sturdy and independent in their presence, pointing to an unbuilt future, in their own language. Some things are lost on the way: the Eiffel photograph, me, vocabularies to explain something.

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