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An illustrated postcard separated into squares and sections. Purple rain clouds fill the top row with a different color in each square, from left to right: dark blue, teal, light purple, light pink, and red. These colors create five columns. Throughout each column is an abstract face made out of lines. The dark blue column has the face of a person with their head in their hand, their tears forming a puddle. The teal column has the face of a depressed person, the rain falling around them. The purple column has a face where the tears well around the person’s eyes, falling upwards and going into the cloud. The light pink column has a person crying red tears that form a puddle. The red column has an illustration of a skull.
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Sueños oníricos, misivas de resistencia 11

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.