Cuadro de Rafa Bertone. Viejo 3. Técnica mixta sobra tabla. Madrid, 2007. lunes, 12 de abril de 2010
LA REALIDAD QUE NO EXISTE
Cuadro de Rafa Bertone. Viejo 3. Técnica mixta sobra tabla. Madrid, 2007. viernes, 2 de abril de 2010
RAINY DAY IN NYC
I saw death umbrellas sleeping on the road. It was 7 in the morning when we returned home after a long night. I was taking pictures and walking in circles, thinking about how could it be to become a man. I mean, if we´ve spent 2 hours in a Mexican restaurant, with Mexican food, Mexican workers and Mexican transvestites, if I am not Mexican, not worker, not transvestite, I am just a woman... How could be my life if I decide to be them: worker, Mexican and transvestite. But for some reason this was the last think I thought.
So then the image of me being someone different, maybe changing my sex (because my hair, or the colour of my eyes is so easy to do) became a reality. Is not that I wanted to be a man, no way. It is just that I was tired of myself, my thoughts, my words, my memories, my face. I remembered Kobo Abe and the character of his novel Tanin no kao trying to build his face... I thought I wanted to destroy it. Like the ill umbrelas in the city, after a windy rainy day, transformed, barely naked in their iron armor, canvas broken, lost handle.
The image is sad, I know, but I could join the same thought of a Mexican worker transvestite with a dying motherless child umbrella. If you ask me why is because that night we spent together was like a lovely thundercloud in which we decided separate forever. Maybe that´s why I wanted to be someone else, totally different. Was I afraid?

