Object of Desire is the third chapter of the Traveler's Journal. Fifteen diary entries combine, cross, and deconstruct themes and motifs born in the Near East and Mediterranean. While navigating, if you can't read, guess. ENTER.
During a family visit to Israel in 2002, I noticed that my mother was using the Internet entirely in Hebrew, i.e.: Operating system, browser and websites (right-to-left). That prompted the consideration that just as in "real" life, on the Internet as well, language functions as a border and space. I found the experience of browsing websites in a foreign languages similar to that of traveling in a foreign country. To experiment with the space of languages, I chose to author the chapter in English, Hebrew and Arabic (plus some French, Italian, Spanish and C). These languages define the semantic landscape of my childhood.
