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The back of a white postcard with text to the left side and blank lines on the right. The text to the left, written in spanish, is translated as follows: “It's like jumping out of a plane. The difference is that I don't see the sky, I don't make figures in the air, I don't have a parachute, I don't have a plane, I don't have air. I only have a void, the equivalent of nothing. Uncertainty. I see the ground and do not know if I'm going to touch it. I distrust my thoughts. I wish I had a parachute, I wish I hadn't jumped, that no one had done it, that there weren't even parachutes or planes or the act of jumping itself. But that's just what I want. Maybe I'll turn into a stain when I hit the ground, one more silhouette on the street. Maybe then good people will come and hide my footprint with gray paint. Maybe it's worth staining the pavement.”
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Sueños oníricos, misivas de resistencia 6

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.