Selective Memory

Finish a film and put it in a bag.
Finish the next, and then the other one.

Forget

Memories are not made in sequences. Experience is not done in order. Life does not present itself in series.
Reality has not got a catalogue. Not all beautiful things are the same colour. Not all beautiful landscapes are empty.
And you don't remember only the 'beautiful' things.

I usually never publish photos that are family album like, it was kind of an experiment, took 11 films that had been collected for around 2 years to develop and choose all of those photos that when saw them the first time  moved me in some way. Its amazing how much we leave out in the search of 'beauty'.

and at times, things are just blurry

... specially beautiful things

 

'My Grandparent's Tenant' by Grace Schwindt

For the past 6 weeks I have been working in the Costume department for the production of a film. It has been incredibly exhausting but also really very exciting.

We started filming on August the 20th and since then I had very very little time to take pictures, let alone sleep. Yesterday we finally finish on scene 2, and today I finally did not open my email with a tone of emails to respond to actors, director and producers; only one email came from the crew, and that was the wrap photo, with many but not all of us.


I will be heading to wales in a couple of days, so til then  I guess it will take me a little time to up load the few pics I had the chance to take, for now I leave you with the one from the crew. (by Matthew Noel-Tod) 


Click HERE to read a little about the film.

Coffee on a tuesday.

Its weird to be equally happy and sad to have written something ...   


As much as it feels nice to see my name in the index of a beautiful publication, I rather had a coffee in your garden on a tuesday...

and then you stop.

trying to.

what ever you were trying.

and then you wonder.

who ever was on the other side.

Mara Bueno at WATERFALL MAGAZINE

If you are in BERLIN maybe you would like to swing by C/O Berlin and attend the launch of Waterfall Magazine 瀑布  Issue 4, which contains a short story I have written, hurray!! ♥

The launch will be today and tomorrow 2nd of July as part of the 'Book days Summer Festival'.
There is gonna be a few things going on, two photography exhibitions and lots of beautifully printed publication.  

Oranienburger Str 35/36 . 10117 Berlin . Germany
Fon +49 30 28 444 16 0 . info@co-berlin.com
Daily 11 am — 8 pm . Admission 10/reduced 5 Euro

...you never asked me to stay.

Strangely, this title makes me feel a little uncomfortable..  I mean, the tittle and the picture go very well together... and the picture and the title go well on this blog too.. but somehow they feel very foreign.

like they don't belong to me.

I took this picture in a Hotel in Heathrow almost a year ago. Unable to fall sleep I wandered around with my camera and uploaded some of the pictures but decided not to publish this one.

A year can be a very long time... sometimes.

Distance, 68 Kilometers of Absence. (work in progress)

I am working in an Installation/urban intervention that comments on the current state of violence in Mexico. 

'Distance, 68 kilometers of Absence'

Is the physical representation of the 40000 assassinations that have taken place in Mexico since the 'war against organized crime' started 4 years ago.  From the tragedy of a number that has become an statistic, with no name, age nor gender, 68 kilometers comes from multiplying 40000 times the average height of a Mexican man, 1.70 meters. The idea of measuring this absence with distance, comes from the realization that violence in Mexico has drawn a line between my desire to come back, and that keeps growing greater. A line of distance between the place where I grew up and the one I no longer recognize. It aims to make tangible a number that is impossible to understand just by thinking about it. 

The first stage, measuring 68 metres, only 1% of the total, will be displayed as my participation in the international protest that calls for the immediate cease of violence from both, government and drug cartels. 


Demonstrations of support have already started in Mexico and will culminate on the 8th of May internationally.


Please join the demonstration in LONDON.  We will congregate at 11 am on Sunday 8th of May in front of the Mexican Embassy. 


Mexican Embassy,
16 St George Street,
Mayfair,
London W1S 1FD


This demand for peace and justice with no political inclination was triggered by the mexican poet Javier Sicilia, after the recent assassination of his son, and is the follow up of the first protest held the past 6th of April  which summoned 30 demonstration of support from the Mexican Civil Society around the country and 13 in different places around the world. 


Click HERE, If you want to have a look at 'the way to peace' ('Ruta por la Paz'), which shows the path that is being walked by the manifestation already taking place since the 5th of May in direction to Mexico City from Cuernavaca, Mexico. 
  
If you want to join the protest from another place in the planet, visit THIS PAGE and find your city. 


Or if can't attend but would like to join in solidarity, there is a proposal for 'Poetic Action'  that is very easy and can be done from your own house or office, all you need is an empty envelope and a stamp. HERE the easy instructions.


For the event information on facebook click HERE, and its version in SPANISH.  


The past 2 post in this blog contain additional information and links if you want to know more about what is happening in Mexico.