Community Project
Ecos de Oaxaca – Staff Casa Wabi/Casa de cultura, Puerto Escondido
Echoes of Oaxaca is a project about memories and their relationship with the landscape that we develop together with two different groups from Oaxaca’s community. On the one hand, we work with the Casa Wabi’s staff women and, on the other, with the folk dance group of Puerto Escondido. The project began with a first meeting where it was sought to initiate a reflective dialogue, a personal connection with the participants to share their memories. We talk about the present, memories, and Oaxaca.
The enthusiasm was immediate, and they told me of their lives generously and warmly with full dedication to the project. Once the first meeting was over, I went to photograph different cuts of the Oaxacan landscape was inspired by the memories that had arisen in those previous dialogues with the other groups. Then, we met again to see the photographs taken and thus be able to choose which ones they felt identified with. That final selection was the one that was printed on canvas and with which we worked in the following meetings. In the workshop days, the objective was to intervene in those images, giving the
necessary tools. The work was significantly different between the two groups: In the case of the Puerto Escondido group the intervention was carried out with acrylics, texts, fibers and collage, and then each one kept the work for himself.
And in the case of the staff of Casa Wabi, Emi, Jessi, Susana, Karen, Itzel, and Vero worked with embroidery and acrylics using wooden hoops as support to generate a joint work. Being in residence at Casa Wabi was, from the human, professional, and personal, a fascinating experience. From the beginning, when time seemed not to pass, until the end that came earlier than imagined. Having the opportunity to meet such wonderful people and being able to have been part only makes me feel happy and grateful.
Echoes of Oaxaca is a project about memories and their relationship with the landscape that we develop together with two different groups from Oaxaca’s community. On the one hand, we work with the Casa Wabi’s staff women and, on the other, with the folk dance group of Puerto Escondido. The project began with a first meeting where it was sought to initiate a reflective dialogue, a personal connection with the participants to share their memories. We talk about the present, memories, and Oaxaca.
The enthusiasm was immediate, and they told me of their lives generously and warmly with full dedication to the project. Once the first meeting was over, I went to photograph different cuts of the Oaxacan landscape was inspired by the memories that had arisen in those previous dialogues with the other groups. Then, we met again to see the photographs taken and thus be able to choose which ones they felt identified with. That final selection was the one that was printed on canvas and with which we worked in the following meetings. In the workshop days, the objective was to intervene in those images, giving the
necessary tools. The work was significantly different between the two groups: In the case of the Puerto Escondido group the intervention was carried out with acrylics, texts, fibers and collage, and then each one kept the work for himself.
And in the case of the staff of Casa Wabi, Emi, Jessi, Susana, Karen, Itzel, and Vero worked with embroidery and acrylics using wooden hoops as support to generate a joint work. Being in residence at Casa Wabi was, from the human, professional, and personal, a fascinating experience. From the beginning, when time seemed not to pass, until the end that came earlier than imagined. Having the opportunity to meet such wonderful people and being able to have been part only makes me feel happy and grateful.
Log-Piece
Sin Título (2019)
Fotografías
Fotografías impresas sobre poliester e intervenidas con pintura vinílica, bordado e incrustaciones de chakira, enmarcadas con bastidores circulares de madera
Fotografías
Fotografías impresas sobre poliester e intervenidas con pintura vinílica, bordado e incrustaciones de chakira, enmarcadas con bastidores circulares de madera
