Oct 16, 2008
Buenos aires, Argentina
I am in Argentina for the next 10 days. Thinking more about it, I am not quiet sure why I am here. Its a very developed country and certainly very westernized that I am not sure if there will be the kind of markets that I am looking for.
Then again, I think I should photograph what there is since the project is progressing and not worry so much about the expectation or what I hope there would be. Is not discovery part of the process!?
Bellamie, my friend who is traveling with me for the next 10 days, and I went to the cementerio de la recoleta today and saw evita’s grave. The tradition of building a family mosolium is so strange to me. I am far more the ashes to ashes dust to dust kind of girl. I believe that we should return to “nothing-ness” once that which animates us is no longer in the physical being. So the thought that you would erect a structure to keep, confine, the physical —
I understand that it can be of comfort for the loved ones to visit a site, I don’t have a problem with that. It is the prevention of decay and rot, of the physical returning to the dirt that we came from that I don’t get. It must be that catholic emphasis on the corpus.
Charlie Grosso
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Even if you arent in a seedy and smelly 3rd world marketplace, I’m sure there’s plenty to work with and ultimately offer contrast to the project as it progresses. I’m excited to hear and see everything when you return.