“cocinar”

Revisiting this picture I took at an investigative project exhibition shown at the Zapopan Art Museum, a widened understanding took place in thinking of food in its wide range of function and meaning. Certainly the personally poetic, scientific, cultural, or unreflected grasp of words, in addition to the possibility of having three or more languages through which a word may be easily conveyed in simple or complex thought, what a certain individual reads into a word can be universes apart from what the general reader of a single tongue might be faced with.

Most basic is the term “food”. This might be true across the globe, even for many who might not master the English language. ”Eat” might be second in blanquet popularity. One conveys passivity, the other activity. Yet, at least to this mind, senses, and feelings of mine, “cocinar” suddenly shook me with an elevated state of being, with an artistic manifestation, with an elevated sense of being, in luxury and in need. It carried the energy of making a decision which is bound to bring about many stages, including sweat, and joy, as well as external achievement and an almost non-existent palate experience.