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Trying to create an album of the dead city

"... dim eternity is frozen in your agony,
As molasses or obsidian silent"
-César-
Brañas

This is a project to create an album of the dead cities (basically the Federal District, Mexico). The proposal is to photograph abandoned places, battered and isolated areas of the city, primarily buildings, machinery and transport. What matters here is the object itself and how it materializes over time and pain, people do not interest us, not nature itself, approaches either too complicated or digital effects: no squid or black and white, no texture, no arrangements, we would like the author, the photographer said nearly gone, we no effect in images where the object takes the floor. This does not mean that we seek the minimal idea of \u200b\u200bit's What you see What you see, no, in fact the opposite is true because we believe that modern ruins, grim sites and rusted, abandoned machinery in a thriving little oil, quarrying lonely and dilapidated, desolate housing units without inhabitants, all these things are symbols, they are lessons, are inevitably documents the man is negligible.

Ernst Jung said that archeology was a science devoted to pain as evidenced by every rule, every great power, succumbed along with their creators, thousands of once glorious kingdom lie dead and their names have been lost in time, that is the pain of knowing negligible and finite, it is a melancholy similar to that experienced at the thought of the immeasurable universe. On the other hand, photography is also a tool of pain: the old photographs are inevitably nostalgic image objectifies and reduces all of reality stops and steals a moment. Photographing contemporary ruins (S. XX and XXI century) is a doubly sad attempt, ie "Look, the other side of town, the other side of things, so you do not want to look, what you are, what I am , which we are, what we do not want to face: the failure, weather, pain, and finitude. " More than artistic

this project is a documentary, is due to have a little place in writing. The idea of \u200b\u200bphotographing abandoned places is not new (although the idea and the formal objectives are very different) for example in Spain there http://abandonalia.blogspot.com/ is really good, other blogs like it are outlined in http://navegaciones.blogspot.com/ , in Mexico City are the DFlickers that dedicated group out to photograph an area taking everything in its path.

in Mexico to find places that meet our objective is relatively simple, for reasons primarily economic and planning. These places reflect
ambitions of a Mexico that never came to modernity, is lost temples dead union labor flexibility, parks where children never played, lost cities reflections Dry international migration. Walking or touring bike for a few hours the city can realize the other metropolis in what appears to be created, paradoxically, a lonely world, dead and ghostly-style interior Juan Rulfo, the same of the City .

metals rust, aging walls, her paintings are crazing, street furniture age without dignity, but it is possible to revive them, and creating an new meaning: this is the second objective of this project / blog: urban interventions in ancient implements of daily life, this itself is a purely artistic purpose, but not related to the snobs and effective interventions are in official circles of contemporary art (many of them very interesting, by the way), but minimal intervention, sometimes minimal or abstract (what you see it's What you see), because in this world where almost everything is aestheticized ( everything is possible with photoshop, drawing courses make that 4 in 10 feel artists, products of any kind have beautiful designs) more or less vulgar (chiaroscuro intense, bright, digital design, special effects), which takes is a little quiet, and elemental simplicity, at once elegant and primitive, that we intend to interventions to be published here on behalf of the authors.

addition we make we will also publish stencils and other "urban art" found in any street, although their style is different from that proposed here, therefore we welcome the street and revived corpses.

Finally, we extend the invitation to publish here by sending an email to rigobertoreyess@gmail.com obviously the images will go up in the name of the author. Cheers.