Coming back from Bogotá, visiting my family and friends, traveling to the beautiful mountains and the small town of Villa de Leyva where our sister Margarita and Alvaro live and we end up buying a small piece of land near them looking at the mountain to the west, in front looking north and Iguaque, the great mountain looking south!.
But specially talking with them and with artists I have full sails to start to work.
My dear friend, Artist and Universidad Nacional de Colombia Professor Marta Combariza give me ideas, names of artists that have worked the relationship of women-body, Islam-women-West, Installations with garments and ideas. The first thing to do is sketches, photos and writting. What is the question I look for? So I sit and write.
But specially talking with them and with artists I have full sails to start to work.
My dear friend, Artist and Universidad Nacional de Colombia Professor Marta Combariza give me ideas, names of artists that have worked the relationship of women-body, Islam-women-West, Installations with garments and ideas. The first thing to do is sketches, photos and writting. What is the question I look for? So I sit and write.
- Who would like to visit an Installation, Walking a labyrinth with women?
- Or is it for walking alongside displaced women?
- Who really looks at the way we dress, we cover, how conscious are we?
- why do we cover up, uncover, disguise, expose our body... ?
- what is protection, fashion or politics... who is the boss of our body?
- The way we cover, have covered, is it related to our culture, fashion, imposition, economic situation, religion, tradition?
An appointment with The Director of UNAM, the branch the Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México in Canada, Maestra Sara Martínez. So we meet and talk. I feel she gets it. She is enthusiastic about it, gives me a great feed back, even offers to look for women´s music, appropiate for the event. So, Rosario, Start to work.
I invite 10 Artist-friends for a barbecue dinner at our lovely back yard to talk, share the idea, see what they think and move one step forward. Eight come, we have a fun evening and I receive all their ideas, offers of support and ideas. Hanne and Bruce are traveling to Argentina soon, but they offer time, work and support. Other friends come by my Studio, drop in, bring garments and ideas. I get a good feed back. My dear friend Sue spends the whole day here, reviewing the floor plan, the sculptures have so far, giving me ideas, for she has experience on setting up eshibits. She offers a violet ¨bridesmaid¨ dress we will have to work in a special way along with Hanne's evening gown. My daughter Maria bring some of her treasures: Spanish embroidered ¨mantillas¨ that belonged to her grandmothers, two beautiful Capulanas given to her by María Isabel Casas, who lived in Mozambique and has a great collection of these hand printed shawls to wrap around the body. My other friend, Barbora invites me for tea and she has a box ready for me with beautiful tzech embroidered pieces that belonged to her great grand mother in Prague. Two embroidered gray linen curtains that were hung at the corner of the room where the pregnant woman delivered her baby. Slowly all starts to move in place.
