Carrying Gazes: Towards a reflexive visual anthropology

Wee, D. (2010) "Carrying Gazes: Towards a reflexive visual anthropology" Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences 3(3):12.


Between you and me
Is a silver sheet
You,
An object of intention
Making me see a certain way

You carry me
Stuck like the crest of a tourist
Wanting me to see
The same as in that postcard
Of far away

Like the others
You await the momentary gaze
In the wee hours
For the snapshot
That holds the key

I carry you
In a trigger happy way
Poised to shoot life immortal
Baring observations
Finer than culture you see

It’s about the stage I say
Of what you do
Rather than what you see
About some unique experience
Not so far away

You carry me
And look back to
The familiarity of place
After which a gaze
To stress it is to be

But only ask
The potentiality of me
Making the everyday
Latching to routes
Not needing to be away

What I assume to be
An object of intention
I,
Am a silver sheet
Between you and me

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