38 Days of Re-Collection began with a

house. In 2009, I rented an occupied home

in Ein Karem, Jerusalem – a Palestinian

house seized in 1948 and inhabited since

by Israeli families. For thirty-eight days, I

moved through its rooms as guest and wit-

ness at once, carrying the “Palestinian Right

of return” in my body. One question kept

returning: how does one live in another’s

home and not feel the lives expelled from it?

I photographed the place obsessively: the

kitchen with its dangling pans, drawers of

cutlery, portraits and children’s drawings,

shoes by the door, the view from barred win-

dows.