Apprehension Jungle
Anytime I stopped, it was standing right beside me.
It was already there, even before I arrived—
as if carried across places that never fully rest.
“And at the appalling dark
There is no sound save its—
Apprehension is the conqueror, everything else conquered.”¹
Wherever I stopped, without looking back—
something remained:
between what binds me to the past
and what unsettles the future.
“Was it due time, we ask—
And the Apprehension Jungle is still there.
At night we fear, and in the day we fear.”²
Apprehension stands.
As you behold it, it looks back.
As you pause, it settles beside you.
* Each figure is staged in dialogue with compositions drawn from paintings by Nicolas Poussin, Eugène Delacroix, and Edvard Munch, among others.
1. Nima Yushij, Kar-e Shabpa
2. Mehdi Akhavan Sales, Hengam
The project consists of nine digital photographs presented as archival pigment prints (100 × 150 cm).
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Apprehension Jungle, Iran, 2013-14 © Tooraj Khamenehzadeh
