This time the combination of his creativity and his particular interest in the identities of local communities have led to the intervention MI RAÍZ ES. Boa Mistura team have used 25 characteristic points of El Romerillo, one for each line of Samuel Feijoo's poem 'I don't know', to transform the public space using its own identity. A wonderful way to bring people together, give color to the neighborhood and giving us these beautiful pictures.
I DON'T KNOW
Samuel Feijoo
My roots are deep
because I lived
in the desert
The sand
and the sun. Thirst.
Fire.
Downwards,
desperate,
my root
bites
the rock,
bites,
bites…
Reached the water.
My root is
my
mother-life.
And
I don’t
know
what,
knew
how to pierce
the rock.
Description of the project by Boa Mistura
We feel that there is no other poem like “No sé” by Samuel Feijoo to express the powerful roots we found in Cuba.
Water, rock and sun define the place and its ownership.
Because of this, its is nice for us to make and intervention in a “community” scale. Connecting people with the use of 25 points, each one for every verse of the poem. Pieces that are non understandable individually, but as a group. We form part of the whole.
We are very interested in the identity of the communities, so therefore, we have selected a serie of supports/walls which are very characteristic of “El Romerillo.” Walls constructed with the use of oil barrels, wood pieces, brick collages and an unending list of materials that they’ve told us they use to create this incredible and wonderful sceneries.
To respect part of these supports and overall their memory, we decided to work with a color frame that will not reach the wall’s limits. Inside this frame, the verse. Isolated, aside, giving a new meaning to the space where is found.
The work, seems and is to us, a very abstract and poetic intervention that has the ability to transform the public space of the whole neighborhood. Adding to it, a new layer of identity.
