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    What Ilya does is repetitive, non-performative, and private. Because collecting the photographs had never meant anything more to him than accumulating icons of the thing he worshiped the most – Shane.

    They were not decorative, to be framed and admired, to be loved and adored by anyone other than Ilya. He revered them, kept them safe and close and hidden in a corner of his life, snipped and cut and torn from print media to cherish for the rest of his meagre life. Where his mother believed in intercession, Ilya believed in memory.

    TLD: Ilya has collected photographs of Shane from the moment they met, evidence of his love and devotion.

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