

Galería Qoricancha, Cuzco, Perú







Octubre, el mes morado en el Peru, mi madre vestia el habito del Senor de los Milagros por todo un mes. Una devocion y concentracion en la austeridad por un mes, austeridad que yo no entendia, devocion de rezos y silencios. Para mi era la inundacion del morado en casa y el cordon me recordaba la soga de los recreos escolares. Cuando este mes pasaba yo me daba cuenta que el morado era el color favorito de Amandita, morados y lilas, en vestidos y flores,especialmente orquideas.
Ella llevaba el sol en sus ojos cuando hablaba del sabor de las pasas que robaba a escondidas bajo la parra de su casa infantil. Ata y sus interminables tejidos como queriendo crear líneas que traspasaran las fronteras de Perú y Argentina, Ata y sus colecciones de botones, broches y pequeños juguetitos de la infancia de los nietos,intentando preservar la memoria en frascos de vidrio. El silloncito de metal Tinkertoy que compartieran Tersi y Andrea. Las fotos en blanco y negro.El poemario de Carlos Maria, la admiración a Santa Rosa de Lima. Ata y las berengenas en escabeche. Ata y su amor por la música de los Beatles y la imagen de los Milli Vanilli. Ata "atando cabos y soltando sargentos", con el sabor del dulce de Leche de La Martona y el vino azucarado.
I live in Berkeley, California, in the United States. I was born and raised here. Now I am raising my children here! My pocket includes the sash from a dress that my Great Grandmother Sophie Wexler sewed for my Aunt Barbara. It includes part of a curtain that was in my Grandmother Jeanne Rice's kitchen for many years. It also includes material from two shirts that I loved very much in my twenties when I was a young adult. It was a beautiful and tender experience to sew my pocket together. Thank you!
Bolsillos de los Recuerdos
Bolsillo-cebolla

Maica & Nadja 
This week I have begun to be flooded with memories of my childhood and more. Moments with Mom. Reading me the Bible at night, her arm on my shoulder as we laid my grandmother to rest, coaching my softball team, cheering me in basketball, whose eyes I first looked into after a scary fall, driving me hours for track and swim events, cheese danish at 10PM after swim practice, hosting and counseling many of my friends, and counseling countless many to their path, climbing Half Dome to my pleasant surprise, meeting in Beijing for tours and tea, listening, laughing and crying as I struggled to find myself, supporting unconditionally in difficult turns, a trip down the coast spotting many whales and ending with a flourish in Mexico with a ceramic dog. Wine tasting and casino hopping, beach rambles and mud baths, caring for my newborn, dancing and playing at every encounter with her and seeing you embrace life every second of it with that welcoming smile, bright eyes, faith, compassion and love. On this day, I made this pocket primarily for you, Mom. I found out you had a rare form of cancer this week. I found out that I may not be able to hear your voice all too soon. These memories others can now help hold for us. This pocket is to reflect and honor the women who provide the guide posts for me on my path, especially you, Mom, with deep gratitude, love and respect. May you be blessed with strength, courage, inner peace and light on your path.
Este bolsillo es un pequeñísimo homenaje a una ilustre pintora mexicana Frida Kahlo, mujer de un inalcanzable valor, pese a todas las dificultades ella supo sacar su sufrimiento y plasmarlo en sus cuadros, firme en sus ideales es una de las mujeres más valiosas que ha dado nuestro país. En la actualidad su obra es apreciada tanto en México como en el extranjero, su legado durará por siempre.
generally speaking, my memory is not good. this thing call the mind, with its words, like names. but the nose is different. it keeps its own record of significant encounters, of so many mundane moments that i would never think to write down or recall. my vocabulary fails me to describe. we say that we smell with our nose, but that verb sounds much too active for me, as if we were dogs on the hunt. we need a verb more like to relax, a verb that signifies the undoing of action. for it is there in the undoing that the window presents itself, into which so many things lost suddenly appear.
My memories
Maica Folch, Spain