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Body modifications do not change a person’s education, worth, much less the feelings, but people keep pointing their finger. This is a form of Art and personal expression. It’s their body, and their life, you shouldn’t judge.
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Destruction is not always a negative thing. Destruction, as long as it is contained, is empowering. Destruction allows for people to move on, to release anger and to be pissed off in a positive way.
SCARS
In SCARS I focus on body marks caused by the city in the form of tattoos and self-inflicted marks –which have been part of human nature for centuries. The uses and meanings of these marks are countless throughout history; from spiritual to vain and for both moral and political statements.
For this project I chose to photograph 20 residents of Mexico City that decided to engrave ink marks on their neck or face (body parts that cannot be hidden) as a statement of their life experiences “good or bad” in one of the largest cities in the world.
These marks allow them to step out of the crowd, define themselves as unique, and by no means look back. Just forward.
With these portraits I intend to create a picture of the city through the human maps composed by the scars, facial expressions and life marks of its inhabitantOnly two of them, but some rad work.
A Victorian-era lachrymosa, also called lachrymatory, tear catchers, or tear vials. Sometimes worn on a necklace, sometimes merely held, they were used the gather the tears wept by mourners at funerals. One type of lachrymosa had a special top which allowed the tears to evaporate (signifying the time to stop mourning), others had a sealed top to allow the tears to last for a year, at which point they would be poured on the grave of the person whom the tears were wept for.
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