More scenes from Saturday’s pop-up exhibit at Pipsqueak.
This is Jordan, one of the core organizers of the community archive project. This is also the first Polaroid I took on Saturday in hopes of adding new layers to this living palimpsest of memory by documenting the documenters, so to speak.
I used the Reclaimed Green 600 film that Seattle’s polaroid queen @sarahlatour_ gifted me last May because I can imagine it looking pretty cool in a future display with all the other photos. Plus, there’s something “meta” about portraits in duochrome for a project like this—like a time out of time.
The main thread running through the whole archiving project was the sharing and re-sharing of stories. Memories that had been collected in preparation for the preview pop-up were rendered by Yarrow into kite-like constructions that hovered over paper forms that welcomed even more sharing.
That intermingling of past and present struck me as well whenever visitor-participants walked past projected images from the march, in that sort of “ongoing form of quiet protest,” as @christine.bingham.art would later put it.
This is Jackie, the other main co-organizer of this project, seen here with the goodest dog Cherry.
I’ve known Jackie since the preliminary Zooms in preparation of the @marchforpalestine.seattle, and we’ve had many stimulating chats since, but Saturday was the first time we got to hang out in person.
A few more scenes from Saturday’s event. Swipe to see the crew winding down after a very long day.
This is Kat, seen here with their photographs from @marchforpalestine.seattle in the background and the little Care Bear cutout their sister had made for the day.
I was a Care Bear for the last leg of march, which apparently meant that I’d taken over for Kat who’d walked the earlier sections. It was fun to reflect on all the folks who came together to make that day happen, without ever meeting each other.