Letter 1: From What Remains
Letters From The Ground 1: From What Remains From Zoukak Collective To Artists and Cultural Workers, thinkers, writers, philosophers in the US, EU and Commonwealth countries, Imagine. A father hugging a shoe box, holding the unrecognisable remains of his son. From what remains, we write you this letter. From what remains, we see the story. The story that we find ourselves avoiding when you ask us how we are doing. In what remains there is no space for politeness. There is no space for resilience. In what remains nestles honesty. What remains is what we face; the shoe boxes of our realities. When you ask how we are doing we find no words. What we can tell is what we face. We are facing military technologies based on artificial intelligence and weapons that are internationally prohibited. Israel targets our civilians, families, journalists, writers, thinkers, artists, social workers, medical and relief professionals, and political leaders. It destroys our cities, v...