What Is All The Lonely Places?

The project All The Lonely Places is a negotiation between self and world, mediated through an act of looking. There is a terribly mistranslated quote from the Torah that reads "wherever you look, there is something to see”. In a sense, this is what we all do, if we only pause long enough to recognize it.

Wherever I look, in a world destroyed by capitalism’s worst extractive and exploitive policies, there is something to see. There must be something to see; if not, what are we doing here?

This is as much a practice of looking as it is a practice to survive the unrelenting onslaught of ugliness and violence. When we choose to look (and it is a choice also to look away), we engage in a form of empathy, of a feeling-with.

Looking through feeling-with becomes a looking-with.

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