Visual artist from Tijuana Baja California, México living in Rotterdam www.mariajosecrespo.com
"Dry petals of dead flowers have secret cures in them -- anything under the sun, once touched by life / sun / is imbued with power over death."
– Jonas Mekas, Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012)
El archivo "es el límite-frontera del tiempo que rodea nuestra presencia, que sobresale por encima de ella y que señala su otredad: es lo que fuera de nosotros, nos delimita.”
As a refugee, she leaves the familiar and safe homeground to venture into unknown and possibly dangerous terrain.
This is her home this thin edge of barbwire.
Ethnopoetics as: the thinking of our categories as something we inherited, and so something we always need to put into quotation marks (denaturalize language).
