| Viaje dentro de sí /Colombia /Melissa Carolina Torres Anaya
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Ésta experiencia la llevo a cabo durante diciembre de 2022 y enero de 2023 entre Argentina y Colombia en las ciudades de Buenos Aires, Bogotá y Santa Marta. Las siguientes exploraciones fueron realizadas mediante un viaje a las memorias internas me llevó a rememorar un recuerdo de hace unos diez años cuando tenía diecinueve, un aborto, experiencia para ese entonces vivida de manera rápida y con poca importancia. Con el tiempo éste recuerdo se hizo como una grieta de la que nunca hablé y que sin embargo venía siempre a la mente.
Luego de esto pensé exponer ésta experiencia al espacio público. Empecé en Buenos Aires en la Av. 9 de julio en cruce con la calle Moreno. Una bahía donde el pavimento se había cubierto con un traje amarillo por las flores de los árboles de Chiapas, un proceso interno de sanación y de perdón que más adelante pudo resignificarse y convertirse en una experiencia catártica. Dibuje la silueta de una semilla con las grullas, espectadores curiosos fisgoneaban la acción mientras esperaban el semáforo. La conmoción me tomó y me afirmó, Durante el delineamiento de la figura, un poco de viento me acompañó y ésto generó un efecto metafórico como el de las olas del mar. Sentí mi cuerpo estaba recreando, resignificando aquella experiencia. Ahora, la pregunta ¿cómo sano ese recuerdo? Comenzaba a mostrarme horizontes y a mi cuerpo lo sentía enraizarse. EL recorrido del dibujo me invitaba a un movimeinto de espiral. Mientras dibujada con las grullas pude conectarme con una especie de envolvimiento y a la vez de expulsión. Este tránsito me llevó a pensar en la idea de las fuerzas centrípeta, aquella que atrae los objetos al centro y centrífuga, aquella que los expulsa hacia la periferia y produce fragmentación. Esto se moldeaba en una metáfora que recorría y movilizaba mi corporalidad a un estado intrauterino que en algún momento se había enraizado al tiempo que desenraizado.
I carried out this experience during December 2022 and January 2023 in Argentina and Colombia, in the cities of Buenos Aires, Bogotá, and Santa Marta. The following explorations were conducted through a journey into my inner memories, which led me to recall a memory from about ten years ago, when I was nineteen: an abortion. At the time, it was a quick and insignificant experience. Over time, this memory became like a crack I never spoke about, yet it always resurfaced. In my search for references, I came across Ana Mendieta, a Cuban artist whose work seeks to build upon the resistance to reproducibility and to reclaim the magical-religious act. In her work "Silhouettes," created during her residency in New York between 1973 and 1980, she displays a series of silhouettes of her body in different natural spaces. Her metaphor sought to resignify the experience of the magical act and "the ephemeral nature of existence." I began searching for a way to heal this memory and transform it into possibility, creation, and learning. I focused on remembering this moment and observing the movements that arose from this experience. I held a dance of these moments for a while, seeking to embrace myself, to ask for forgiveness, and to ask forgiveness of the life that never came to be. I sought to fold inward and listen to every sensation and emotion that might arise. I asked myself, "How do I heal this memory?" In my mind, the silhouette of a seed appeared on the sand of the sea, being dissolved by the waves. I set about drawing this image and continued with the question, "How do I heal this memory?" The idea of cranes came to me. I researched their meaning; they are part of a Japanese symbol, "the legend of Senbazuru." The story says that whoever makes 1,000 origami cranes will receive a gift from the gods. I set about using all the recycled paper I could find to make as many origami cranes as possible. I felt deeply moved and pierced by this sensation, surprised by the symbolic place of trauma and how our bodies hold such memories. After this, I decided to share this experience in a public space. I began in Buenos Aires, on Avenida 9 de Julio at the intersection with Calle Moreno. It was a bay where the pavement was covered in a yellow hue from the blossoms of the trees in Chiapas, an internal process of healing and forgiveness that could later be reinterpreted and become a cathartic experience. I drew the silhouette of a seed with the cranes; curious onlookers watched the action while waiting for the traffic light. The emotion gripped me and affirmed me. While outlining the figure, a light breeze accompanied me, creating a metaphorical effect like ocean waves. I felt my body was recreating and reinterpreting that experience. Now, the question: how do I heal that memory? It was beginning to reveal new horizons, and I felt my body taking root. The drawing process invited me into a spiral movement. While drawing with the cranes, I was able to connect with a kind of envelopment and, at the same time, expulsion. This journey led me to think about the idea of centripetal forces, those that attract objects to the center, and centrifugal forces, those that expel them to the periphery and produce fragmentation. This was molded into a metaphor that coursed through and mobilized my body, returning me to an intrauterine state that at some point had taken root while simultaneously being uprooted. |
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I have develop experience in differents education field like promoted humans right, peace cultur, create learning enviorements, develop social habilities, follow up and treatment whit people in situatios dishability. Also I have coach pedagogical proces in topics like migrations, ambiental cultur, arts and vocational orientation. |