Saturday, November 2, 2013

Dusk in Honolulu and some thoughts about displacement...

I shot this image last night on my way home from work...
I found this interesting quote from a New Yorker article about the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura Fuentes which cited the late great Cuban writer in exile, Reinaldo Arenas, who said of cultural displacement:

"Everyone who lives outside his context is always a bit of a ghost, because I am here, but at the same time I remember a person who walked those streets, who is there, and that same person is me.  So sometimes I really don't know if I am here or there.  And at times the longing to be there is greater than the necessity of being there."

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