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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: “I dream of a pavement of eyes blinking and crying in the rain. Sometimes the tears form a red puddle, others are confused with the rain, a few rise instead of falling. There are also people with empty eyes and sockets who cry. Their passing over the pavement seems natural. You don't hear anything. They cry over the eyes on the asphalt and they blink and cry back.”

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Sueños oníricos, misivas de resistencia 12

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.

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