11/04/2025
๐รญ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐จ: ๐๐๐ฒ๐จ๐ซ
๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ: Roberth Andres
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๐รฑ๐จ: ๐๐๐5
"Esta obra fue donada en homenaje al apoyo brindado al arte saragurense durante la participaciรณn en la exposiciรณn Purik Sapikuna. Actualmente, la pieza se exhibe en las instalaciones del Centro Social Loja en Newark."
Reflection:
The more I travel, the greater the sense of belonging I feel to the world, rather than to my own land. This journey grants me a broad mindset that seems impossible for anyone else to understand. What a tragedy: while I believe I am gaining more, the truth is that it feels like losing myself. It is like exiting a cave; as one becomes more conscious of one's life, it only brings deeper sadness and pain, a life with no purpose, where all material things cease to make sense. The more I observe the world, the crazier it seems to become. The only thing that can make sense, the only thing that seems to understand me, the only thing I truly feel, is art.
When I received this piece, I quickly put on my gloves to open it. Opening an artwork feels like opening my own interior. I view this piece not as mere entertainment, but as a vessel to explore my own collective turbulence of being.
I view my culture as one of the few things that cannot be owned and only truly lives when it is sharedโthe only thing that makes sense in this world, where everything else can be consumed, monetized, or sold.s a source of comfort, but as an act of transfiguration. My culture feels like the last few reminiscences of my wounded being, a place I look back to remember who I am. I see my culture as one of the few things that cannot be owned and only truly lives when it is offered, the only thing that makes sense in this world where everything else can be consumed, monetized, or sold. I want to invest not only money, but my trust, attention, and overall, my love. I hope everyone gets the chance to travel and realize how beautiful Saraguro is.
Alexander CQ
Alexander's Journal | July 20th, 2025
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