Between Past and Future

Hannah Arendt's book for Grandma's 95th birthday - on Ilford 400

Above: Phyllis on Ilford 400 - East Bay Area, CA | January 2023

This is my grandmother. She was born in 1928 in the United States. It was a good place to be as a Jewish woman, considering the alternatives. She did not get to become the woman she would become today. That pained her for a long time. She has a law degree but did not become a lawyer. She has three children and six grandchildren. Three great grand children. She has knobbed hands and freckled blue eyes. She has given me so much. This January, I gave her Hannah Arendt.

Above: Phyllis on Ilford 400 - East Bay Area, CA | January 2023

“Moreover, the human brain which supposedly does our thinking, is as terrestrial, earthbound, as any other part of the human body. It was precisely by abstracting from these terrestrial conditions— by appealing to a power of imagination and abstraction that would, as it were, lift the human mind out of the gravitational field of the earth and look down upon it from some point in the universe— that modern science reached its most glorious and, at the same time, most baffling achievements.”