Fire: the result of combustion, where a brilliant glow emerges alongside the release of heat and gas.
It spreads uncontrollably in directions beyond my immediate focus.

Ritual: a structured set of rules dictating the performance of a sacred action.
It is inseparable from the preexisting order of individual sacred actions, which lie beyond my current focus.

The scent of the burning substance signals that a ritual of any nature is underway. I focus the camera.
A piece of information is going to be perpetuated somewhere else.

As part of the "Documentary Photography" course at Bezalel Academy, I have been dedicated to visually representing rituals involving fire. The primary objective of the course was to incorporate images from an archive in the city of Jerusalem. I spent afternoons sifting through old photographs, searching for ones resembling those I had taken in the Jerusalem area. However, I only managed to uncover images capturing a fraction of the scents I had experienced. The projection includes images from the archive, along with representations of unrepresented communities, arranged in a non-chronological order. Past and present collide within the frames.
Here, if I focus solely on the visual narrative. I only talk about rhythms enveloping my being, different from the normative storytelling. Althought, still fictional.
My gaze is the protagonist.

I do not document.