Homo sapiens
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The Human
For the human, everywhere is a stage. On a stage, one is to share stories, rather than instruct, rather than show. The story told — in its beauty and its madness — needs to be understood by the teller, before addressing the listener in its own story. Storytelling wants a communicator that feels the depth…
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Significance
On a hike in East Africa 2 million years ago, you might well have encountered a familiar cast of human characters: anxious mothers cuddling their babies and clutches of carefree children playing in the mud; temperamental youths chafing against the dictates of society and weary elders who just wanted to be left in peace; chest…
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¿Por qué nos callamos lo que más nos duele?
“Why are we silent with what hurts us most?”, said Camila to her family, as they all stuck in a hotel room during a tornado, during which suddenly all became honest with each other. All Inclusive / Todo Inclusivo (2008)Director: Rodrigo Ortuzar Lynch
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Testing Detest — the inexplicable foe-to-friend metamorphosis
Friendship beds vary. A friendship may develop in a variety of ways and for various reasons, reaching different intensities. Some come subdued and ever so slowly, others are sudden shivering manifestations. While some are a smooth sail, others are tested and challenged for survival through time and situation. Generally, they all arise out of mutual…
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License to a Kill
This is a concept perpetuated by those humans who do not recognize that the -ing form in human being is an imposed conjugation which even Shakespeare avoided in his existential question. Religions claim it, cultures implement it. Some individuals may carry but out of cancerous arrogance, forgetting that cancer tends to eat its own. It…
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Man and Flower
With a work I created for an exhibition at the Galerie Joachim Blüher (Cologne, Germany) in the mid 1990s, the interest for questions on human existence was revived. Blüher invited me to participate in a group exhibition he was preparing on the topic of flowers. My initial reaction was reluctance towards making flowers but I…
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A Good Morning is… that the Sun has not come up for nothing
A good morning is a warm meal for comfort in a hearty plantain purée; a noble joy to the palate and to the soul, reviving the memory of a wonderful Indonesian rain season; accompanied by the glance at a book that spells out who we are, and revitalizes being, beyond what we have believed to…
Sila Blume 