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‘‘EL MIGRANTE’’

 

“Every human being creates their own destiny in every decision. Some people make the choice to leave their homeland in search of something better, and that’s where the road begins, one step at a time.”

Step by step we leave our primary home, and we enter the tasteless sense of our own path. An uncertain, rough, and painful route.  Pain is handled as an exchange at an unknown price, of an unheard-of paradise, a place to grow with safety, economy, personal and family development. 

Choosing one’s own journey can cost life, and even then the risk is greater than the reasons to stay. Forgotten towns where years go by, and the only thing that’s left is the death of the old ones. Dirt highways, homes without water, light, hope, hills without sowing, seeds, farmers, and communities completely empty. Forgotten pristine land. 

The entire world is home to human beings, and we humans are entirely from earth. We are all citizens of the world, borders are politics, not human.”

— Jose Luis Malo, Artist

DESCRIPTION OF THE PIECE AND ART SYMBOLS

 The theme of El Migrante, I decided to represent it with naked feet, in the notion of movement, this means, walking. With heavy steps, but convinced to carry on until meeting one’s goals; to arrive at a new life, and then heal the elapse left behind. 

  • They are tired feet, mistreated by the inclemency of the journey, cuts, scars, even gunshot wounds, with the pain of the impotence of not returning for partners that had to be left on the road, because that would have meant death

  • The tallest part of the sculpture represents a three in frank deterioration, which longs to arrive at its destination to make new roots, as this has left its own birthplace, and fights to not perish on the way.

  • In the interior of the two pieces, a red light is proposed to translucent between marks and textures from within, having an ambivalent meaning;

    • The energy of human beings that drives us to move on despite the inclemency of life itself. 

    • The violence experienced on the road.

  • The footprints of transformation in the surrounding that the migrant leaves at its pace. This set of symbolism has the final goal to represent the current migration from the point of view of those who live with the unsettling problem of this travesty.

 

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