tinaja
✸ The nestmaker /
The home-wrecker
✸ An imaginary of displacement
✸ You and me through the broken wristwatch 1
✸ You and me through the broken wristwatch 2
✸ Clop sur clop
✸ My own private México
✸ Color zine
About
My own private México
This is my Master's dissertation, in which I wrote about the universe surrounding appropriating photographs for narrative purposes, parting from a work where I appropriated a photograph taken by my father.
I found a photograph in my house in Caracas (or maybe in his former office, which is now my mother’s). I was attracted to the image itself, at first, without recognising that, in fact, it was my father in the picture. I later found out because of the text it had written in the back, with his handwriting, where the place and the time of the photo were stated, as well as the fact that it was taken by his first wife ‘maliciously’.
This specific object sparked an idea that I’ve had for a while, that parents (and almost all of our elders) who can feel so familiar and intimate have lived whole other lives that are completely unknown to us. The initial feeling of strangeness that I had towards the photograph, by the fact that I did not recognise him physically, reinforced this idea of foreignness towards my own father. As I grow older, it is also the feeling I imagine he must have towards me, that I am becoming more of a stranger to him.
It’s a dynamic that works as an opposite growing relation – as he grows younger, I know less of him, and as I grow older, he knows less of me.
Bookbinding by hand ‘couture copte’ style. The edition also includes the work that motivated the dissertation bound at the end.