Tambar Publishing

(Yair Meshoulam & Friends)

As the Covid 19 Virus turned the human world upside down, the patterns of human behaviour changed. This book explores the themes and signs of that change through images, poetry, photography and writings on identity and culture. It is the third volume in the series ‘ Textures of Consciousness’ by Yair Meshoulam and friends.

Art works and surrounding text by Yair Meshoulam titled 'The Fifth Season of the Moon' accompanied by articles from friends: Robert Silman 'My Gang' (on identity politics), Xa Sturgis 'Powhatan's Mantle' (on colonial expropriation) and photographic art and text from David Campany and Grant Simon Rogers. In this third volume of ‘Textures of Consciousness by Yair Meshoulam and Friends, the signs of our post COVID time are explored through images, poetry, photography, identity and culture.

Open the book and read the Signs...

Is everything random? Are the patterns we observe, and form, chaotic or structured?

This book is a collection of images and words that explore questions of awareness, creativity and improvisation, catastrophe and the organisation of complexity, with contributions from a variety of specialists. It is Volume 2 in an evolving series (Volume 1: ‘Textures of Consciousness’) and the catalogue for an exhibition of paintings, prints and collages at Gallerie #GH36 Mitte Berlin, by London based artist Yair Meshoulam.

Did you pick up this book by accident or on purpose, or are they both part of the same thing?

Is this an Art Book?

Yes, because it assembles the art works of Yair Meshoulam and serves as an illustrated catalogue of his work to date. No, because it is an interface between art and text, where text is both language and image. In Yair Meshoulam’s Time is a Texture of Consciousness, the text is texture. No, because it includes poems by Ruth Fainlight and texts written by friends where consciousness is explored in all its facets, from the intense subjectivity of the Locked-in Syndrome to its absence in Thoughts without a Thinker.

So what is this book? It is a texture of consciousness.

(Translated by Marie Kuhn-Osius)

Yet another white person whitesplaining Africa to the Africans? No! Yet another French diplomat justifying the unjustifiable? Not at all! So what, then, is this book?

A homage to the people of Zimbabwe for their courage in confronting their daily lives.

A dialogue about black and white identity, the impact of slavery and the persistent burden of colonisation.

An acknowledgement of the adverse effect of Western aid on Africa.

A wake-up call about demographic developments.

Most of all, an appeal to the black diaspora to fight corruption within Africa so that Africa can truly belong to the Africans.