Learning to live in the now, 2020
Spoken word performance accompanied by textile piece and ceramic hands for The Spot, Paris
Pachamama a veces me llamas
pachamama sometimes you call to me
to receive your messages and relay
but when this happens
I can feel a rope,
tying me up
constraining me
I am a human from nature
as are you
you
and you
made from the soil, the tierra of the Andes
and mixed with the rolling waves of the Pacific
Mis antepasados, my ancestors, they whisper their names in my ear
gifting me the lessons we must re learn
The modern human has lost it's way
we believe in the filosofía consumerista occidental
the western consumerist philosophy
which has lead to the loss
and forget
of oneself
It has created the individualist mindset
we expect everything instantly
and want it all for ourselves
¿pero no vez la infelicidad que esto crea?
don't you see the unhappiness this creates?
Recuérdense, you are dust
we will return to the soil
but what if there is nothing to return to...
what if we finish destroyin-
I count the days until we're told the apocalypse has come
as a child I would ask my grandma
almost everyday
if my life, this life, was a dream
I had managed to convince myself that I was in a coma
and this life I was living
was the dream of the me in the coma
maybe it is
maybe the planet died,
I'm in a coma,
and now I live in my coma dream
what if we finish destroying her
of course we know this can't happen.
We may be her children, but she won't be afraid to kill us first
La luna miraba hacia la tierra, buscando los humanos
The moon looked onto the earth, looking for the humans
Within Andean cosmovision, we are much concerned with family, nature and mother earth
and the intertwinement between all these
because there is no separation within these elements
Yes, we are all connected.
In this room
in the streets
in other lands
all over the globe
the rivers
the trees
the birds
the seas
no hierarchy - just connection
Embodying and understanding
I still ask and seek to answer
why our humanity harms
the feminine
the feminine as an energy
an entity
a being
our destruction of our home comes from the disconnect of our feminine
It's why we feel detached from nature
acting like we can do what we want with her,
this earth
Recognise the feminine,
take reign of your power
it's your intuition
your emotional capacities
your softness -
to move intentionally,
with calm
it's your connection to the moon and this earth.
Evolve to live like water
Learn to live in the now
