Emma Braslavsky

Aug 6, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Emma Braslavsky |J. D. Kurtness |Lia Galvan Lisker

Archaeologist, my goodness! That’s a lofty word. But it is correct in principle; I actually am an archaeologist by profession. It’s just that today archaeology is something completely different. We no longer live in times when we have to uncover a fragile past with the utmost caution, gloved and with steady hands, with little brushes and spatula knives, and then decipher and put together the missing pieces of the puzzle through years of contemplation.

Oct 5, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Emma Braslavsky |Cristina Garza |Nina Perrotta

“Some place some time [. . .] people began to scratch soft clay bricks with sticks, and then burned them to harden the scratched surface. And although we no longer do such a thing very often, it is this half-forgotten gesture of scratching which is the essence, (“eidos”), of writing. It has nothing to do with constructing.