Between - Within

Between

From afar cities belong to provinces (or departments), zones, countries, regions, continents. Cities can also belong to cultural clusters. There are world class cities that belong only to themselves, and the rest.

Within

Zooming in, cities are fragmented: centres within centres / peripheries within peripheries /centres within peripheries / peripheries within centres. Neighbourhoods, squares, strips, streets are entities that miraculously intersect.

Between - Within

Without intersections the between, as an urban/mediated moment, cities are confined to their fragmented immediacies.

This is a blog about one city: San Salvador

I start with Carlos Cañas (who was born the same year my Dad did) and his piece Horizon (which I saw at MArte - San Salvador). Don Carlos, as Sao Paulo´s Bienal curators: Lindo, Imberton and Janowsky put it, synthesizes the hybrid men of cultural cross-breeding. The condition of hybrid becomes a lense, or better a mirror, for an immigrant that comes back to look back and forth.

I am one of those latin americans that decided to leave a few years ago and one of those that has the opportunity to come back. Not to the same country, not to the same region of departure, but to latin america, a place beyond categories and categorization.

My attempt is to describe or better, narrate what my hybrid eyes see. The horizons of the returning mirror, paraphrasing Don Carlos' piece which I googled, copied and, pasted in this entry.

Day of arrival: March 29