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CHANGING THE VILLAGE THROUGH PROTAGONIST PARTICIPATION
Protagonist participation with the work of Ánxeles Penas
The figures of children and teenagers themselves (their silhouettes, bodies, and gestures) become the visual protagonists of the urban space. The aim is not to represent them, but to allow them to inscribe themselves into the landscape with their scale, their language, and their living presence. Their image occupies façades, walls, and partitions, intervening in the urban environment with their collective identity and symbolic power
And I tell you:
If I had the path to reach Prometeo
the shadow that gives nightmares to you little girls would basoiraria,
the night woven with the threads of fear
that at some time you have been argalas
-I don’t know when-,
gods of darkness,
shadow of the astonished mothers who stop if they know
Well, it’s time to take out the reapers of life
so that golden wheat is born,
corn that sparkles in the sun, burning vintage
Well, it’s time to empty the Moorish well,
to remove the mourning from the waters
It’s already time for the fight with the langran Leviathan
that fills the earth making it an anthill of terrors
It’s about time
And I ask poetry for meaning,
but poetry is like the beggar lying on the sidewalk:
a demand in desolation,
a hand reaching out into the cold afternoon
and that it remains, full of space, in the gray sunset
She is this white silence of the paper
with all the questions,
this clarity waiting,
this snowfall rests
that one wanted to sow creative words, verses lit like suns in season
to give birth, you don’t know which fields of meaning,
what rows of thoughts that sing of innocence
Thus, I thresh the letters like corn
in the joy of the riddles I found when I was born
And I shuffle the alphabets as one does with luck,
because the meaning is beyond the words
and the tired gesture of the scribes,
apart from my trade of rummaging
Ánxeles Penas
COLOUR YOUR VILLAGE
The village or city in which we are working, transformed into a game board, a laboratory of experimentation where children and teenagers can act from a new point of view.