palaver
/pəˈlɑːvə/
noun: palaver
1. unnecessarily elaborate or complex procedure. "there's a lot of palaver involved"
1.1. lengthy and unproductive discussion.
plural noun: palavers
"an hour of aimless palaver"
similar: fuss, bother, commotion, trouble, rigmarole, folderol, ado, song and dance, performance, to-do, carry-on, carrying-on, kerfuffle, who-ha, hullabaloo, ballyhoo, business, pantomime, hoopla, bobsy-die
2. (historical) an improvised conference between two groups, typically those without a shared language or culture.
verb: palaver
talk unproductively and at length.
"it's too hot for palavering"
similar: chatter, gossip, prattle, prate, babble, blather, blether, blither, maunder, gabble, jabber, tittle-tattle, slabber, chit-chat, jaw, gas, gab, yak, yackety-yak, yabber, yatter, natter, rabbit, witter, chunter, waffle, chinwag, twaddle, clack
An on-going visual conversation between EJ Hassan and I.
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K - EJ asks about this image, I say its a shrine for the forest that surrounds it
EJ - images of EJ's sister Nikki
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EJ - I asked about it, EJ said it was a dried patch of grass in her backyard
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EJ's first image after the cancer diagnosis
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EJ - image of EJ and her sisters
K - image of my mother and her sister
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K - image of my mother visiting a place where she used to ice skate as a little girl, its is now a muddy pond
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K - EJ asked what this says, I tell her that this is my name written in Kanji
EJ - the last image she sent to me
