Achieving the emergence of creativity and latent feeling among a group of artists and transforming everything into a collective action, without prior conceptualization or dialogue, is not an easy task. It requires a connection between them and a synchronization of subliminal perceptions for the materialization of the work.
The intervention in the landscape made by Karen Perry (Mexico), Marisa Caichiolo (Argentina / USA), Dagmara Wyskiel (Poland / Chile) and Arcangel Constantini (Mexico) on July 15, 2012 in one of the craters surrounding Quillagua, constituted an important precedent for all participants, interesting from the point of view of the experimental and spontaneous process that is generated.
The fact that the artists shared time and space in an intensive residence in Antofagasta, prior to this trip to the desert, helped the synchronization that I mentioned earlier.
The fusion of the bodies inside the crater, stuck to the fiery ground and surrounded by an infinite landscape without horizon, immediately generated, almost simultaneously and in deep silence, that each of the participants prostrated in a fetal form, with their bellies almost touching the bottom of the earth, as connected from an invisible umbilical cord to mother earth. From that moment, the crater became a gigantic uterus that contained the fetuses (bodies), radiating heat and protection.
The collective unconscious at that time contained the whole of the spiritual inheritance of the evolution of humanity.
In a paradoxical way in this intervention of the Quillagua crater, the most heterogeneous elements (four artists of different nationalities) and the mass of subliminal perceptions, achieved the encounter with the prodigious treasure of everything deposited in the course of the life of the ancestors , who by their existence contributed to the differentiation of the species. They achieved the divine convection of everything that has life on this planet, becoming the whole.
Marisa Caichiolo
(Los Angeles, United States)
ES