12 - Rising

12 - Rising, a photo by André Varela on Flickr.

From The Rising of the ashes by Tahar Ben Jelloun

"This body that was a body will no longer stroll along the Tigris or Euphrates

lifted by a shovel that will not remember one single pain

put in a black plastic bag
this body that was a soul, a name and face,

returns to the land of sand
detritus and absence."

This is here because i really love this book. Just amazing. And because i wanted the shot to be like a sequence to the text that is clearly about death. Ressurrection, being brought back to life.