#28/ NO WORDS

Welcome to issue twenty-eight of The Attention Span Newsletter by me, Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil. I’m a writer, a literary translator and an artist based in Amsterdam. Every other week, I take the time to reflect and offer a glimpse of how I see and feel the world through the lens of culture, art, translation, poetry and literature.

Everything feels a bit too much right now. The world is heavy, and in some spaces where important things remain unspoken, the ones who care can feel lonely. So in this issue, I decided not to dwell on words and dived into my photography archive.

This is a series of photographs I took while I was in Senegal as part of a residency at WAAW in Saint-Louis, in 2015. I selected moments I captured from the Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, and others from Doune Baba Dieye, once a vibrant fishing community, now a sunken village, one of the many taken away by climate change. A mixture of hope, despair and beauty.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

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Canan “Ja’anan” Marasligil (she/they) is a writer, literary translator and artist based in Amsterdam. They established The Attention Span website and its newsletter to publish their work independently: making the time to reflect, analyse and imagine.

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