Daybreak in an olive grove

Daybreak in an Olive Grove

“I was not looking for something. Looking doesn’t work. I drift along and see what happens. If I hadn’t stumbled across something, I would have left.”
— Jeff Wall


we sleep by
                   a plastic water bottle
                   a blackened kettle 
                   a cooking pot
                   a car fender

we sleep together but apart 

we sleep in the shadow of
                   a prison
                   a barbed wire fence 
                   a look out tower
                   a guard with a gun

fluorescent light seeps 
                    from tiny windows like stars 
                    while outside we lie 
                    on stony ground       and sleep



https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jeff-wall-daybreak-on-an-olive-farm-slash-negev-desert-slash-israel