The message that I received in the morning did not make me feel happy.

I wonder if I was writing to many messages to the wrong persons, every day I feel that I have forgotten something to write about.

Today I observed the butterfly that was sitting in the corner of the room close to the carpet. It did not move and stayed still during the presentations of the group of artists.

As silent as this butterfly I would like to observe everything, sounds of the presentation still echoes in my head but in a sort of foggy way.

What was he talking about …. I guess I should not write anymore to …an artwork from whom?

Still a bit desorientated.

I was thinking of the different movies they play in the bus in Chile and Peru. In Chile all the films are new and in Peru the films are quite old fashioned, all American movies. One night they forgot to switch of the Dvd player and the sound of the menu kept me awake until I decided it was time for some sleeping pills. I woke up and the landscape changed in to a big dessert. A dessert with foggy conversations and artworks.

6 months of continual changing environments places to sleep, places to eat and places to perhaps fall in love… it makes me feel a bit alienated from myself and my sense of place.
Do I really now where I am?
I just searched for hours to find a ticket back home which at first hand seemed a impossible task. For weeks I have been looking for a ticket home and I can not find a single ticket from Buenos Aires back to Amsterdam…
I found one from Rio de Janeiro to London, but I have to get back to Buenos Aires to get a bag full of my art works and photographic negatives…
Or could I just trow that a way?
Give my art to my friends? Leave my art behind under the bed in an apartment in La Paternal….

All prices where twice as much as when I flew to Buenos Aires in June 2012. I felt a light sense of panic running trough my veins. No easy possibility to go home…I’m stuck in South America although it is a continent where I actually prefer to stay, maybe I should not go home? After all I’m half South American as well because of my mother’s side of the family….

All of a sudden in this very exciting second night in Guayaquil , just 30 minutes ago I found a ticket through a site called pirates flights that gave exact details for three dates to fly from Amsterdam to Buenos Aires and Buenos Aires to Amsterdam for 499 euro’s. I entered delta flights and searched for a flight on these specific dates and found a flight that departs on the third of April from Buenos Aires to the United States, Atlanta than from Atlanta to Boston and after that Boston Amsterdam. The flight will take 28 hours and 25 minutes exactly….changing places rapidly crossing different parts of the world oceans…

performance with Andres Monzon; Osiris & Fernanda Romero in Latienda gallery in Medellin

photographs made by Rita Elizalde-Crocker

Performance ‘Osiris and Fernanda Romero’

A proposed performance in between what is intimacy and what is universal. I would like to explore the effect of time in a transformation of feeling while creating a new identity named Fernanda Romero an obvious Latin American name. The identity will be consisting of a combination of performance and photography presented with cyanotypes.

The work is an open dialogue with my personal experiences in Medellin and Saqqara a city in Egypt that was build close to the river Nile and is historically connected to Memphis that serves as a cemetery. Saqqara is the largest necropolis of all Egypt and the one in which traces of all-important epochs of Egypt’s long and distinguished history can be found. During Dynasty III, the Step Pyramid was built by Imhotep for King Djoser 2620 – 2600 B.C. Until Dynasty III the traditional form of a royal tomb was a mastaba. The Step Pyramid was originally conceived as such but at some point was altered and was the first monumental architectural ensemble in of all Egypt to employ stone as its exclusive material. In this place the tomb for king Horemheb is to be found. Horemheb was a pharaoh and has a second tomb in the Valley of Kings, another geographical location in Egypt. This Tomb contains religious scenes depicting the Am Duat (Book of That Which is in the Netherworld) a religious handbook, divided into hours, and intended to provide the spells and charms necessary to nullify the forces of darkness during the twelve-hour nocturnal journey to the Hereafter. This work is a synthesis of acute astronomical observations and religious speculations.

Recently I bought a ring that depictures Osiris and a pharaoh that for me symbolizes Horemheb. Horemheb pulls out his arm to Osiris to touch him in some sort of ritual. I thought it could be symbolic for the transition of human life into the Hereafter, or as Osiris is the ‘God of eternal life’ the transition to eternal life. Ever since I arrived in Medellin I was obsessed with this ring. I kept wearing it and imagining it was protecting me against evil forces. The fact that I would like to create a double identity for me connected me to pharaoh Horemheb that had two tombs for one body. The Tomb in the Valley of Kings contains many paintings of Osiris and Horemheb together. In the performance there is a play with this idea of a double personality and the mix of these personal experiences in Medellin connected to a journey of geographical places of Frenanda Romero in Egypt.

Sarojini Lewis

made by

Ricardo Muñoz Izquierdo

made by Ivan Carazo

with Taller 7 -  Residency Medellin Colombia

For Stephanie - sorry for being 2 years late...........