Wednesday, April 11, 2007

CHESS AND WHISKEY

Dijeron que iban a llegar tarde aquella fría y húmeda noche de la tierra levantina. No los conocía todos. Actor, profe, crupier, empresario... Empezaron así, con los intercambios de actividades antes de sentarse.





Esa noche decidí salir del juego. Deliberadamente me quedé con los espectadores; quise estar fuera del escenario. Estar con ellos pero sin ellos. Leyendo un libro. Ocupada en otra cosa pero siempre observándolos. Mezclando la realidad de mis lecturas con la realidad del teatro vecino, teji una ficción que pensaba contar aquí. No es ninguna historia de hecho.

Charlaron un rato. Hablaban de ir al campo de golf.
Al final se quedaron.

Desplegaron el tablero, colocaron las piezas.
La Luz tenía el color del líquido que chorreaba de la botella.
Me senté en el sillón, mirando un gordo libro recién regalado: fotos de Robert Capa.
El frente de Aragón, el desmonte de las brigadas internacionales, “regalo” amistoso de Stalin a Hitler. La retirada republicana de Barcelona después de la entrada de las tropas nacionales.

Una oportunidad perdida. Un caballo está en peligro.

Doy la vuelta a la página, viene una ciudad china, Hankou, luchando contra la invasión japonesa. Estamos en 1938. No decidió Capa ser fotógrafo de guerra dice la introducción en el libro, fueron las circunstancias.

Me sorprende esa manera de concentrarse mientras el whiskey fluye en la sangre.

Disparo sin flash.
Vuelvo al sillón, un cigarrillo en la mano, las hojas en blanco y negro en la otra. Me paro delante una batalla de nieve jugada por los niños en China. Dicen que es su foto más feliz dentro de las 70 000.

Me disparan pero me escondo.
Jaque.
Cuentan el origen del juego. Un joven persa que quería explicar la estrategia de una batalla a su padre.
Las miradas se cruzan. Hoy se vistió con capucha; “caperucito” azul. Abandona el tablero. Ha ganado.
Me enteraré después.

Al principio del libro, hay fotos de él, reportero con Leica por todo el planeta. Nació húngaro. Murió estadounidense al estallarle una mina antipersonal en Indochina.

Pienso en las etiquetas sobre las hojas del documento oficial guardado en la carpeta de plástico. Coge polvo dentro de la habitación. A Canon, lo tengo guardado también.
No estamos para vivir nuestros sueños. Un tiempo los contemplamos y luego los abandonamos.
Jaque Mate.


special thanks to Sara

Saturday, April 07, 2007

SALVADOR DA BAHIA

One day in the past
Festa de Iemanjá na praia do Rio Vermelho



Sentir o pulso da multidão, o calor da gente, a força de um povo a cantar









No caos da rua das Flores, o brilho do
carnaval, a sensualidade de um povo a dan
çar


Thursday, April 05, 2007

A NIGHT IN NYC

Ehu Kai, a shame we did not coincide this night of 2004 in DownTown
I was with Malika and some of her "compis"
Malika, friend for so many time
We only drank water...








...and fruit juice.

I swear

Sunday, April 01, 2007

One day in the past

MARCH 24th - BROOKLYN - NY


Nothing really Jet Set happened in Brooklyn on that day.
All the flights coming from Chicago - San Fran and beyond were canceled due to a snow storm in NYC the day before! Consequence ... a lot of people were missing. Even Agnes couldn't make it! DAMN IT
Fortunately the week before we were able to head down to Miami and see Karlo our Hair Stylist. We were just perfect - we could have a good time.
- See you next year -

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

today is today

el Campello. 19 de marzo del 2007


Alors Jojo? Vas-tu faire contraste avec ce paysage depuis mes terres et publier quelques photos de ta Jet Set Party à Brooklyn?


Happy Birthday.


Thursday, March 15, 2007

estimados/as, queridos/as
Allen and William, rue du château d'eau. Paris 1997


Wednesday, March 07, 2007

ON THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MULHOLLAND DRIVE COW BOY

I heard the cow boy of Mulholland drive.
The buffalo cranium was there, suspended from the wall

The place was a kind of ranch deprived of horses for several years. All the boxes were as empty as the big house standing on the bank of this windy hill facing the sea far away. In the morning, he said he wanted me to accompany him to the house. He said it wouldn’t take a long time; he just needed to have a look at the chimney to find where the leak was. He needed to go up on the roof of the house. We went there with the owner, a tai-chi woman teacher. She said the ranch was to be sold. He looked at me without any complicity.

I had a walk through the huge tropical garden. The house was uninhabited but somebody was taking care of the plants because they were beautiful.

I walked around the house and saw them supported against one of these white walls. They were curiously close. I thought that it might be in relation with the past. But forget to know more about the past I said to myself. I went my way but from this moment, the paranoia started to follow me.
I went down to the garden and then discovered the empty boxes and the buffalo cranium. I felt attracted to the buffalo bone for no reason. I wanted to photograph it immediately. I looked at the land. No sign of life. I could only hear the wind howling in the pines. I looked at him overthere on the roof watching inside the chimney flue and next calling to the owner if she was seeing water falling down.

I came back next to the buffalo bone and heard a voice tell me: “this is the boy”.