THE CAREFUL IMAGE

oments pass. You go in and the seasoned instructions come at you from behind the dust-encrusted canvas curtain hung for heft, but also to block the light. ‘Move right, turn your face to the left, slightly to the left, look at me, look slightly at a right angle…’ These precise and familiar injunctions are also an opening of sorts for a fleeting camaraderie among those (brother), where are you going?’ ‘Student?’ ‘’ (Going on vacation?) ‘Do you have relatives there?’