Welcome to Michael Roseth’s online portfolio, dedicated to the ongoing project called Three Hundred and Sixty Degrees of Separation.
This project looks at two sacred sites in Jerusalem, and the Israel - Palestine conflict, through the themes of identity and difference.
As the circularity of the title suggests, the work encompasses both poles of this dichotomy within its wide embrace. On the side of difference live the other and the stranger. But the stranger is never strange to himself. Present to himself, he is strange to another. In this way the movement between strangeness and the presence of identity produce a journey. This journey moves through 360 degrees - a movement in which the conditions of separation and unity coexist.