Fig. 1

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She moved onto Settler Street into her Settler Home, what happened next?

Fig. 1.

A photograph of hardened sugar glass.

The photograph of the sugar (Fig. 1) is distinct from the process of the sugar glass living out its natural life, how it may ease and ooze off its surface when heated from its hardened state or crack quickly when hit.

Fig. 1 is stuck in time.

Captured and forever isolated to this predetermined space in the photograph.

While this is an obvious observation of photography, the material photographed no longer has any agency to live out its life. A life well lived.

In this way, the photograph addresses both the politics of sugar’s history and its implications on human life. This photographic act brings the exploitation of photography to the front. The beginning of this story.

The life and history of sugar is as complex and long as its tie to human history and global movement.

Haunted movement.

The consequential haunting promotes a cycle of questioning the photographer’s role as an exploiter, re: amara higuera.