A pile of stones  mixed with steel foundations, a path traced down to the sea, a fence, an unpaved road, sandstone. Two narratives are embedded within each and every photograph in Gaston Ickowicz's new series of works: one narrative relates to the experience of the terrain as it exists in the present moment – examining, as it is, the local character of the sloping Jaffa cliffs and the beach below them. At the same time, each photograph contains hidden within it a parallel, historical narrative and a collective story.
The piles of clothes cast onto the ground are, on one level, belongings left behind in a makeshift garbage dump that has become an organic part of the surrounding landscape. On another level, they tell a story of abandonment, of expulsion.
The Jaffa cliffs are a gray zone, a no-man's-land between land and sea, between Jaffa and the city of Bat-Yam to its south, between urbanism and organicism. The photographic act commemorates what is missing and what has been abandoned, and creates a form of order within the chaotic narrative of this place.

2006 Yair Barak