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MIST Ilan Weiss
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When I was a kid,
I thought adult life would be serious and boring. Like a soap opera.
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Then, I figured out about exciting grown up games.
Like Money.
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But it can drive you crazy to play it.
And you just have to.
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Unless you’re like Simon.
He found a way to build his own world without money.
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He uses things other people don’t use. Like the castle, which was uninhabited when he found it.
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Nobody else wanted to live in this ruin.
Nothing really ever happens around here.
Everything is light grey, like the sky.
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It’s paradise.
But it looks like hell.
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In the castle’s backyard, there is a spa.
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Simon had recently finished building it.
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To survive the winter in this land.
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Here, all the leaves fall from the trees, like in the movies. Then, some invisible power tortures you for months.
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It drives some people mad.
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Like a friend of ours who set himself on fire, but didn’t die.
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Or Simon, who walks around talking to himself.
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Saying things like
glass is liquid, that if you dive into a black hole, time will stop. And that he found a way to walk on the ceiling.
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But it’s a secret.
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Behind the castle’s backyard there is a deserted factory. We are not supposed to go there.
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Simon says you have to be like a ninja when sneaking inside. To avoid getting caught.
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He did perform quite impressive acrobatic moves at first. But then forgot about it and was loud as usual.
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I found a mysterious, beautiful object in the factory’s workshop.
A small glass bulb with liquid metal inside.
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It had a daunting magical power.
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The world began bleeding darkness.
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An obscure, undefined subversive might. Slowly soaking everything in sight.
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Until light came back.
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With the first days of spring.
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It meant we had lo leave.
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And a whole world forever disappeared.
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Pictures & text: Ilan Weiss Graphic design: M!ch W. Printed by: DRUCK+VERLAG KETTLER
Paper: LuxoArt® Samt Ilan would like to specially thank : Yael Weiss, Boris Eldagsen and Susan Wais
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