Hannah Deitch

“When you don’t have money, your imagination is forced to expand beyond the limits of what’s tolerable to rich people, who don’t need imagination at all. When you are rich, the opposite happens: the world shrinks to particularities and patterns. I can drink water only at this temperature. I can sleep on beds only with this thread count, this mattress height. I can’t live in a house without a dishwasher, an in-unit washer/dryer, a view of the ocean. The imagination folds in on itself. Space crystallizes and becomes intractable, opaque. When you are poor, space does the inverse: it hollows out. Anything can be a door. Anything can be a place to rest.”
― Hannah Deitch, Killer Potential

“This was the kind of partner I was used to, the kind who wanted to name what I was in relation to them, to compensate for some lack of their own, yin and yang. But people are not funhouse mirrors: we can’t stand in front of them and search only for ourselves or our absence.”
― Hannah Deitch, Killer Potential