“An Introverted dot Net is dreaming in bed: underground, on the earth, with the body, in another pocket of time—unearthing, digging in, digging deeper, soft resting—we are horizontalvertical with bodyawake, earsawake, tasteawake, smellawake, voiceawake, eyesawake, wideawake!”
Amanda Boulos
Amanda Boulos engages with fragmented oral national narratives from Palestine, Lebanon, and Canada to explore how those histories can morph into a future Palestinian diaspora. She is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at OCAD University, a member of the plumb and programmer for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival.
Several of the works in this issue consider how the domestic is shaped not only by private life but also by global currents, family histories, and consumer goods, nudging at the conditions that shape how we live, where we live, and with whom we choose to share our lives.