Jamás su tronco endereza

2021

Never its trunk straightens is an accompaniment to go through the process of mourning and regeneration through nature.

It is a series of videos and photographs where actions are developed that involve a relationship between the body and nature putting both in almost tense situations. 
By naming the titles of the works as the popular, metaphorical sayings that we use to refer to some circumstances, I also point out a connection between communication and nature.


We always go through the branches (Siempre nos vamos por las ramas)

Two bodies in the middle of the forest keep their distance from each other, creating an almost impossible choreography / conversation / negotiation by having to interact with branches and these being part of an extension of their bodies so that at the time of the approach, these two bodies do not harm each other.









You sleep like a log (Duermes como un tronco)

We know that trunks carry many symbolic burdens and in many ancient cultures, trees are the axis of life on earth.
Huge, vertical, always pointing towards the universe, full of energy and wisdom. 
In this series of photos, several suspended bodies place all their weight on different trunks, in different seasons and in different positions. 
With the energy and the contact that is generated between them, the bodies begin to recharge and meditate, to reflect through this pause and then move on to the next step.  














Tree that is born crooked never straightens its trunk (árbol que nace torcido, jamás su tronco endereza)

Inside the snowy forest I choose a complicated, heavy, very big branch.
I take my body to feel the full weight of it as I drag it with me to the place where I live. 
I identify it as an equal and cut the branch into fragments to the size of my limbs. 
I dress myself with the branch, I am a tree or I try to be one. 
When I try to tie these fragments together, an awkwardness begins to generate between my body and my movements, creating a metaphor of a fractured body that tries to heal and correct itself within a tension as I try to keep these fragments from falling and holding on.
Finally, my trunk cannot be able to straighten itself under all the pressure of wanting to be something that I do not become. 






















Due to restriction measures imposed by Youtube, the video can be viewed below at this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-IER693rQ8&ab_channel=AlexandraColmenares




"Natural fracture treatment" 
(Healing my fractured body)