"REUNIÓN DE PADRES"

Fotografía: Pascal Demeester
http://www.pascaldemeester.com/

(Was born in Brussels Belgium in 1959 and moved to the US In 1998 . He lives and works in Los Angeles and New York City)

*REUNIÓN DE PADRES*

En la reunión de padres de la escuela se discutía diversos métodos para ejecutar a la maestra. La mamá de Romina revuelve el café con un dedo que se disuelve lentamente en la taza. En mi época, recuerdo con melancolía, se optaba por la lapidación, y los ejecutores eran los alumnos mismos. En el patio, como siempre, se escuchan gritos.

(Ana María Shua, "Botánica del caos")

"CASA DE GEISHAS"

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"Stranger in a strange land"

(Vogue Nippon October 2008)

Photography: Yelena Yemchuk

www.yelenayemchuk.com/

www.art-dept.com/artists/yemchuk/index.html

Model: Carmen Kass(Estonia)

Styled by Anastasia Barbieri

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"Las primeras mujeres se reclutan aparentemente al azar. Sin embargo, una vez reunida, se observa una cierta configuración en el conjunto, una organización que, enfatizada, podría convertirse en un estilo. Ahora la madama busca a las mujeres que faltan y que ya no son cualquiera sino únicamente las que encajan en en los espacios que las otras delimitan, y a esa altura ya es posible distinguir qué tipo de burdel se está gestando y hasta qué tipo de clientela podría atraer. Como un libro de cuentos o de poemas, a veces incluso una novela."

("Casa de Geishas", Ana María Shua)

www.anamariashua.com.ar/casaghieshas.html

"SEGUIR A LAS HORMIGAS"

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PHOTO: Ruven Afanador

www.art-dept.com/artists/afanador/

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"Le gustaba, de chica, seguir a las hormigas. Algunas volvían transportando trocitos de verde: esa fila lo conduciá hasta el hormiguero. Otras avanzaban sin carga en dirección opuesta, hasta los campos de trabajo. Ahora, tan lejos de su infancia, observa con aquella fascinada atención las dos filas de hormigas que van y vuelven entre su ombligo y su nariz".


("Botánica del caos", Ana María Shua, narradora argentina)









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IN ENGLISH:


(Note: I hope the English translation is adequate, any error will not hesitate to tell me)


"He liked when I was small, follow the ants. Some pieces returned carrying green row that led to the anthill. Other no-load moving in the opposite direction, to work camps. Now, so far from his childhood, notes that fascinated attention to the two rows of ants going back and between his navel and her nose".


( "Botany of chaos," Ana Maria Shua, Argentine narrator)

" The Tibetan Book of the Dead"(El Libro Tibetano de los Muertos)

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PH: RUVEN AFANADOR

www.art-dept.com/artists/afanador/

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"A CAUSE OF YOUR ERROR"

In the radiant vastness of the southwest petal of your mansion skull, a Ghasmari (*) dark green wave a vajra (*) and a bowl of skull. In the northwestern bright vastness of the petal, a yellowish Chakra (*) eats a heart while holding a decapitated body. Shame on you. I told you to read the Tibetan Book of the Dead (*) before dying, not before bedtime.


( "Botany of chaos," Ana Maria Shua)




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(*) Ghasmari: It is one of eight yoginis open dance on the petals of lotus, which marks the first circle of Hevajra of the mandala. This traditional group of eight includes: Gauri (E), Caurier (S), Vetali (W), Ghasmari (N), Pukkasi (NE), Sabari (SE), Candali (SW), Dombi (NW).

(*) The Vajra or diamond scepter is the symbol of the fifth essential 'vehicle diamond' or the path of Vajrayana Buddhism. It is also used as a prefix of the name of a host of deities, own qualities and attributes of this ancient spiritual tradition.


(*) Chakra means "wheel" in Sanskrit. The closures used this term to describe energy centers of the human body. There are seven main chakras and several side that correspond to the points of acupuncture. Each of them is associated with one of the endocrine glands within the physical body.



(*) Tibetan Book of the Dead

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, also called Bardo Thodol, is an instruction guide for the dead and dying, since it believes that the killing lasts 49 days and after that occurs a rebirth in the cycle of reincarnation. Based on this belief, the book gives some recommendations to be considered during this interim period of Bardo.

@ Documentary "The Tibetan Book of the Dead" @
History Channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ThpbErYU7U&feature=PlayList&p=93DDAD9DE8BF20DB&index=0&playnext=1