THE HIDDEN WORDS OF PANDEMIC CALLIGRAPHY
A BLUEPRINT OF ART IN ISOLATION

WITH ZEE OF WEAPON

Collaboration with @elisabettariccio for #togetherisolation in @gama_crea

I

While I work on this photograph, my sister is at the New York Airport, with three flights canceled and unable to return to Mexico.
To get to the airport, every time she tries to fly, she have to go through Manhattan, the city now turned into Zombie Apocalypse

II

Our Latin alphabet added the Greek ζ (dseda), which in turn came from the Phoenician Zai and which in Aramaic means 'weapon’.

III

The current situation of health contingency makes us think of the global scenario given by the Covid-19 pandemic, where the failure of the idea of ​​community is evident. The border closings are no longer just for marginalized communities, the speeches of xenophobia and fascism that we have been dragging are sharpening and are cynically shown by all parties, the hypocritical security measures that expose the falsity of an expectation of global well-being and the acute economic crisis that it implies for the majority, reveal the political instrumentalization of the pandemic.

IV

Following the German philosopher Walter Benjamin, it seems that History shows us that there is no way to repair the ruins that we are leaving behind through time, and that concealment, that denial of the remains, is what appear in reality in the form of a ghost.

V

In this image, I wanted to represent the letter zee, as the record of ruthless and ghostly movements.

VI

My sister finally manages a flight, she will be quarantined at my mother's house, while my mother will be accompanying my grandfather, who has to use an oxygen tank.

VII

Haze in our heads

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