Routine Emergency
A visual reflection of the Israel-Iran12 day war
Routine Emergency is a personal reflection on the Twelve Days of War between Israel and Iran in the summer of 2025. It is an exploration of how the extreme becomes ordinary, and how the mind adapts to a reality where the stable world begins to distort.
The project uses reverse perspective as its primary visual metaphor. In this world, objects only make sense when they are in motion, mirroring the disorientation of living through relentless conflict. It is a study of the "new normal"—a state where sirens, shelters, and alert apps shift from being urgent interruptions to becoming the background noise of daily life.
Poem
Wake up to alarms.
Grab your phone, check the map, and run.
To the public shelter, awake or not.
The sky rumbles... Loud and deep.
Explosions echo, missiles fall, buildings hit.
The shelter becomes routine. Known, blurry faces.
Sleep comes in pieces, if at all.
No quiet. No normalcy. Just waiting for the next siren.
The stable distorts... Like seeing in reverse.
Twelve days: disoriented, relentless, real.
Grab your phone, check the map, and run.
To the public shelter, awake or not.
The sky rumbles... Loud and deep.
Explosions echo, missiles fall, buildings hit.
The shelter becomes routine. Known, blurry faces.
Sleep comes in pieces, if at all.
No quiet. No normalcy. Just waiting for the next siren.
The stable distorts... Like seeing in reverse.
Twelve days: disoriented, relentless, real.
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