The attention and love.
A look around awakens awareness
Being aware induces connection
Connection creates bonds
A bond can lead to good love.
I try looking into the detail.
The tree
My perceptual apparatus crashed to the limit
at the moment of being in front of the centenary tree
to the limit of what is not there
because that was not my imagined landscape
They were just a tree and a story.
Microconfusions
Six inches separate me from the phone
I look up for a moment, the city appears
notice three scales: the cell phone
this little flat thing that's a hole
to the infinity of a dizzying colourful world
I don't know how he does it, it's the second scale
When I'm going to cross a street I look up
but the profile has already moved when I took a few steps
that I was not even aware of, moving stage
that is the scale of the movement, the third.
So what do I look at? dazed or confused?
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7 Capturas II / 7 CAPTURES II
Alexis Pirela
CAPTURAS de palabras que emanan/ CAPTURES of words that emanate while wandering
Metauniverse
A part of my body likes to be here
I keep walking down another street, I turn around
in a corner, several people are talking
sitting in a cafe. I like it
my feet decide to cross that alley
the atmosphere is fun, people eating
there are flowers, there are bushes, sounds of cutlery
people who talk animatedly
glasses and dishes collide. They talk loudly and laugh.
What time is it? Am I in the dream of a strange universe?
Microworlds
A micro-world that I leave behind. I continue walking lazily
because I wander with a direction that my feet direct
I don't lift my head, the noises guide me, the tiles guide me
the machines give me signals, the traffic lights interrupt me
mainly the sidewalks command the journey
a shouting mixed with colours, Stop signs
cones that demarcate the passage, psychedelic hologram with neon lights, glitter.
a huge hole, a machine of I-don’t-know-what. What is this?
Old Aliens
Above, the towering cranes carrying unusual weights
completing this neighbourhood, building this city
an old building catches my eye, I pay attention to it
as if I wanted to understand why it is there
right next to it there are glass walls, there are lights
too much noise and difficulties in the street
there are bridges, tunnels, and train crossings.
put my cell phone in my pocket, like someone admiring a jewel. What is valuable about the old?
Epilogue
We pedestrians have learned to avoid each other without looking at each other, rushing to get the green light. I am part of that mass that circulates with heads bowed 15 centimetres from the cell phone, looking out of from the corner of my eye at the feet of others, immersed in the living process of the renewal of the neighbourhood. I understand that in this cosmos new things emerge that little by little also continue to disappear. Inexorably the city renews its failures and repairs itself like certain lizards when they lose their tail.
( traduction by Alexis Pirela)

Alexis Pirela. Una visitante, foránea respecto al barrio, transeúnte de sus rincones y fugas visuales. Ella trabaja en la idea de la atención intencionada para entender y conocer mejor. Su medio expresivo son CAPTURAS de palabras que emanan.
__ A visitor, foreign to the neighbourhood, a passerby of its corners and visual escapes. She works on the idea of intentional attention to understand and achieve knowledge. Its expressive means are CAPTURES of words that emanate while wandering.
Photos by Elsy Zavarce