I do not know what it is about this image that makes it break from the continuum of ordinary time.
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Is it the folds on her skirt? And what exactly does a fold do to the eye? It announces that "the inside is nothing more than a fold of the outside." Maybe this was the eternity that Benjamin saw in the fold a dress. But here it is the eternity of the folds and the field.
Charles Tonderai Mudede, The Stranger’s senior staff writer, is a Zimbabwean-born cultural critic, urbanist, filmmaker, college lecturer, and writer. Mudede collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which, Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes. He has also written for the New York Times, Cinema Scope, Tank Magazine, e-flux, LA Weekly, and C Theory.