“Rosto de Sal” proposes a reflection on the image as a means of alchemy, elaboration and healing. It raises the incessant metamorphosis of life: energy transforming into matter, matter transforming into energy. We are transitory forms sparking in and out of existence, engendering a continuous movement.
In 2021, when my mother’s physical-body was ripped away from me by the Inconceivable, I began the journey that would give rise to this essay. Going through the notes and italics in her books letter by letter, I linked her textual gestures, her portraits and photographs from my childhood to my authorial images, thus weaving the cord that would lead me to her energetic-body.
This essay evokes, through the photographic-body, the presence of an absent-body. Through artistic gestures, it rescues the traces of what remains of the natal-body, the mother-body. It ritualizes the creation process and inaugurates a space where it is possible for bodies that inhabit different dimensions to meet. Presence is refound in a subtle reality. The meeting takes place in the folds of a time before the chronological one. In the gap that opens up in the process of making an image.
Focused on the circular perception of existence, in this essay I trace a place where I call my mother to dance.
