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An illustrated postcard of a burning cabin. The outside of the cabin is white with a dark wooden door and wooden panels for a roof. Small pieces of wood are attached to the cabin, patching up holes. An orange and yellow fire blazes on the rooftop, trailing down to the right side of the home. Greenery engulfs the cabin on its left side. In front of the cabin is a gray paved road, and to the far right of the illustration leafy plants peak in. A deep, dark, blue sky fills the space above the cabin.
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Sueños oníricos, misivas de resistencia 1

Lorenzo Camcho

These are 13 illustrated postcards with written dreams people had during the pandemic and the social protests in Colombia. The postcards portray the way in which the collective unconscious was affected by violence and scarcity, they also offer alternative ways of approaching the eternal question of what to do against injustice and adversity.

I've been working on dreams for long enough now. To me, they are very important, strange and beautiful artifacts. When a friend, Andrés Torres, invited me to create this collection of dreams during the pandemic and the social protest in Colombia, I couldn't say no. This is but a sliver of the enormous changes that both events have brought to the already complex oniric structure that sets on the Colombian people. It speaks about our fears, our confusion and pain, but also our resilience and hopes: our imagination.