Nenokia
Flor de Mayo (Self-portrait) -detalle
Forgotten diaries.
May MMV
Juchitán, Ver.
México
(This is a handmade flower necklace, with "Flores de mayo" (May's flowers), which only blossoms during that month in the Tehuantepec Isthmus. A friend and I had a photo exhibition in Juchitan a few years ago, and our host made us a ceremony before the opening and gave us these necklaces. We also walked from the house to the gallery accompanied with fireworks and music as it's used in traditional zapotec celebrations. As Juchitan is the hometown of one of my grandparents, I was happy to be there in such a ocassion, even they were sad to realize how much this place has changed, since globalization seems to homogenize everything.
Nevertheless, even though I've always felt in the middle of that struggle (modernity vs tradition), l do believe everything guards a mysticism, a mystery to be revealed, a knowledge to be found, so I keep searching in both, trying to find a middle ground, where duality merges as a new possibility to understand this bizarre complex world.
Flor de Mayo (Self-portrait) -detalle
Forgotten diaries.
May MMV
Juchitán, Ver.
México
(This is a handmade flower necklace, with "Flores de mayo" (May's flowers), which only blossoms during that month in the Tehuantepec Isthmus. A friend and I had a photo exhibition in Juchitan a few years ago, and our host made us a ceremony before the opening and gave us these necklaces. We also walked from the house to the gallery accompanied with fireworks and music as it's used in traditional zapotec celebrations. As Juchitan is the hometown of one of my grandparents, I was happy to be there in such a ocassion, even they were sad to realize how much this place has changed, since globalization seems to homogenize everything.
Nevertheless, even though I've always felt in the middle of that struggle (modernity vs tradition), l do believe everything guards a mysticism, a mystery to be revealed, a knowledge to be found, so I keep searching in both, trying to find a middle ground, where duality merges as a new possibility to understand this bizarre complex world.