“To live is to leave traces.” The architectural photographer, artist, writer, and political activist Elizabeth Felicella embodied this precept in the most evanescent of ways. Felicella died on December 22, 2024, after a two-year battle with leukemia.
She would not have liked the word “battle.” For her, life, even when most elemental, was the art of leaving traces, in the sense given by the precept. A true artist-intellectual, Felicella would have recognized its author as Walter Benjamin, philosopher of life’s tragic drama. She might even have found his words too obvious here. But anyone who knew Elizabeth or worked with her—and there are many—would recognize their
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