THE PLACE OF STILLNESS
(2016 - ongoing)
"Toda luna, todo año,
todo día, todo viento
camina y pasa también.
También toda sangre llega
al lugar de su quietud."
"Each moon, each year,
each day, each wind
walks and also passes.
and in the same way all blood
comes to a place of stillness"
- Chilam Balam
Catharsis means purification, liberation, transformation. Purge.
The Place of Stillness refers to a poem included in the books of Chilam Balam (tales about the historical facts and circumstances of the Mayan civilization) and is a visual study of the purification and purgation of emotions through dramatic art; an extreme emotional state that results in renewal and restoration. A way to illustrate the limit, the end of the cycle, but also the released tension, the anxiety turned into a sigh.
With the aim to better understand how people use certain experiences to transcend the prison of their bodies and achieve a different state of consciousness I started to develop a dialogue between anthropology and art; mental health research and imagery.
The artistic research that resulted from this dialogue draws a map throughout this spiritual goal, in the search of forms of alternative perception; and that which is common to each and all of us: the gift of being alive and the possibility of evolving our own consciousness away from any kind of conditioning.