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MORE THAN ONE TREE Ghenoa Gela
Archive: a place in which public records or historical materials (such as documents) are preserved. This definition in the Webster edition, Really made me think, About preservation and what preservation means to me. I never really had an idea of what an archive was, is, or how… Hoarding precious things from other living beings, came to be something in reflection of power. Of course, preservation and archive are two sides of the same coin, They do the same thing, I guess, And sometimes in conflict… Of each other – that’s for sure. Like culture and colonial organisation. See, I don’t like the term colonisation – because the effects this nation, and every other nation received in terms of INVASION, is something that is… Well, let’s just say it really unsettles me. For me, colonisation gives a sense of ‘this was an organic evolution to the planet’ when in fact… It was just an ORGANISED TERRORIST ACT. But alas, I digress, lets talk about something less… Confronting. After all, white fragility, is the norm. Let’s go back to preservation, allow me to start again, And yarn about how I find ‘Archive’ in the western definition…
