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Artist
Statement
Por qúe
cantamos
Rebuilding can take many forms: The form of regeneration
or renewal is the one I have chosen. As the Benedetti poem that
has inspired me suggests, only through courage and the belief
in renewal, can a people persevere:
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we
sing because the sun recognizes us
and the fields smell of spring
and Because in this stem and that fruit
every question has its answer |
My
images will come from nature – and may be interpreted as
a metaphor for the literal rebuilding of torn societies –
and as a symbol for the cultivation of land, which is a part of
any enterprise of "rebuilding."
Por qúe cantamos -- a mixed media piece of photographic
transfers, lithographs, watercolor, oilstick on Indian handmade
paper (from the Gandhi ashram in Ahmedabad, India). The photographs
are the artist’s own, including the child image taken in
"El Paradiso" an Ixil development project of homes being
built in a Guatemalan valley near Nebaj, Quiche by survivors of
the violence and terror there.
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