Palabra de Estrellas (Word of Stars) is based on the book Cosmographia by Petrus Apianus, published in 1548 in Antwerp; the invitation considered studying and proposing mobile structures based on the manipulation of the original copy, an opportunity that Antonieta Palma, head of the Conservation Department at the National Library of Santiago, gave me through Soledad Correa paper conservator at CNCR, the Chilean National Center for Conservation and Restoration. I thank them both for their valuable help.
“…It took me a long journey to get here from a remote star, as said by shamans and magicians that have travelled by my side in this voyage.
As implied by the angels on Wim Wenders films, it looks like we love the touch of the skin, the taste of a kiss or the fragance of the Andean ice coming down to my window every sunny winter morning; that’s why we return again and again...
Only here our consciousness manifests itself on a body of heartbeats and eyes, fingers and pulse, spiral flow.
Here we miss perfection, but in return we have the experience of laughing until crying, walking bare foot or love until our bodies dissolve. That’s why we return. That’s why I came to the place of the sun and the mountain that guards over my sunrises and sunsets, the moment when the dimensions merge and we become one with the cosmos.”