A short video about Ward, a patisserie in Bhamdoun El Mhatta & its loyal chef. For thirty years he has made a Nabulsi dessert called Tamryieh, a golden pastry pillow with powdered sugar on top.
where do the untold stories go
There are many histories untold, shared in fragments, or built within systems that compress them. We are told our histories can be found in their typical homes; books, classrooms, museums, the keepers of our stories and memories. But what if a history was untold, unwritten, and unkept. Where does that history go? Who are its keepers?
Each individual becomes a composite of their own lives, their genealogical identities, and cultural heritage, but how does a people build, preserve and document a collective memory?
How can a people gather, when they do not know how they are connected. How can they share their identity when their past exists only through memories?
How do you move forward, when you’re stuck yearning for a different time. Perhaps that time is not before, but it is ahead.
In July last summer, I visited Magpie Nest, an antiques shop in Estepona, Spain. Very quickly, I fell in love with the beautiful and strange objects and trinkets, my ideal type of store.
Thats when I met Micheal and Martin, two lovely shopowners who care for their store with a thoughtfulness that radiates amongst the objects they have been collecting for 30 years.
I made this little video because I cherished the morning I spent, drinking my coffee and learning about this wonderful store.
*The rhyme at the beginning is a nursery rhyme about magpies, according to the superstition that one magpie is bad luck, but two is good.
Music - Somewhere In The Night | Cal Tjader
