ERICA MCDONALD PHOTOGRAPHY
Surf Manor Adult Home ResidentConey Island, Brooklyn, New Yorkphoto by Erica McDonald
Surf Manor Adult Home Resident
Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York
photo by Erica McDonald

the dark light of this nothing multimedia

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This piece is meant as a tribute to those long term residents who have sustained the Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York neighborhood for generations and are now in an increasing minority. The old guard is losing their sense of community. A new, affluent population, drawn by Park Slope’s popularity as one of America’s best neighborhoods, is swiftly overshadowing the working class.

The title of this body comes from the words of the philosopher Derrida that reflect on the experience of the loss of “what I myself am not” and on the interiorization of the Other in his irrevocable absence.