javier a lara - Parallel Lines

PARALLEL LINES: The product of our sharing becomes sculptures, drawings, performances and installations. These drawings, sculptures and performances are a combination of watching, waiting, and listening. My mother is my main collaborator in this project, she share her oral history as I observe remember with nostalgia moments in time that will never return. Together we share in a parallel line our experiences, creating a new art interaction.

In order to more fully claim our stories we draw with heavy yellow, red, black color lines using different material, tread, tape, and pencil. Speaking the oral history, the drawings, sculptural objects become an extension of our hands. The lines hold multiple meanings. They are rows of text, distant horizons, solicited connectors, and blue veins that pulsate throughout the story.

The lines and the videos became entangled as they expressed ideas about the story, memories, its psychological manifestations, and most importantly those common nostalgic places. Together the silent lines and the echoing videos affirmed our lives and experiences.

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