Maturenl 24 03 29 Irenka Photographing My Old S New ◆ | FULL |

– Over tea, you show her the object: your father’s wristwatch. It stopped running in 1997. You have kept it in a drawer. “It’s old and broken,” you say.

– Irenka packs up. She leaves you with a single JPEG. The file name: maturenl_24_03_29_irenka_photographing_my_old_s_new_001.jpg maturenl 24 03 29 irenka photographing my old s new

If “my old as new” – a translation issue from Slavic languages (Polish: “moje stare jako nowe”). It implies a transformation: through Irenka’s lens, the old performs newness. This is the most likely meaning, given the Slavic diminutive “Irenka.” – Over tea, you show her the object:

If “my old is new” – a mantra. The act of photographing is secondary to the realization. Irenka is not making it new; she is witnessing that it never stopped being new. The dust is just slow confetti. Let me reconstruct what might have happened on 24 March 2029. “It’s old and broken,” you say