Mitologias perdidas I (Lost Mythologies I)

Lost Mythologies is a compilation of images and stories that construct imaginary identities for when we feel orphaned of our cultural heritage. Migration processes and colonialism have created situations where people have had to erase their roots in order to survive. Those of us who are descendants are left with that void, the result of surviving.

(ES) Hay quienes nacemos en las grietas de la identidad. No somos ni de aquí, ni de allá. Somos alguien, o crecemos como alguien porque eso es lo que nos dicen. Nos ponen un nombre que tiene de guirnalda, una lista de destinos.

Somos felices con el nombre, pero cuando salimos de la grieta y conocemos a quienes nacieron tierra adentro, muy lejos de las fronteras borro-sas. Descubrimos que nuestros dioses eran reales y sostenían todo. Pero se fueron, los mataron. Y ahora estamos viviendo en una grieta donde llega un sol que no sabemos reconocer.

(EN) Some of us are born in the cracks of identity. We're neither from here nor there. We are someone, or we grow up as someone, because that's what we're told. We're given a name that's like a garland, a list of destinies.

We're happy with the name, but when we emerge from the crack and meet those born inland, far from the blurred borders, we discover that our gods were real and sustained everything. But they're gone, they were killed. And now we're living in a crack where a sun shines that we don't know how to recognize.