Rawquel
Side by side.
We were sleeping.
I was a natural body.
A source of purification.
Minerals.
My
Body as sand, silt and clay.
Vulnerable to erosion.
Soil of ourselves.
I was ready.
DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK
My visual poetry is a result of my lucid dreams. Dispite my poetry is not concrete, the images and words are messages that I receive from those dreams that I got inspiration from. Silverware is a representation of myself and my family and words are an expression of my anxiety, dreams and concerns.
Domesticliteraturemovement, Hypnagogic Poetry
The first stage of my creative process is to feed the intelectual vacuum and I discovered that deep relaxation is the key to interact with my inner monologue. Dreaming myself to sleep introduces a way of communication with the unconscious mind.
In the beggining I dive into the perception of self-relief and a feeling of distortion of time and space pulls over the words from household noise waves and silence itself. When a fulfilling feeling of epiphany hits, new insights take form and I allow the unconscious mind to take over.
A new imagery is introduced and linked to words. Silverware appears as the expression of the complex combination of experience, memory, knowledge and crafts the message generated in the creative process.
ABOUT RAWQUEL
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Rawquel is an Artist who creates visual poetry. "Silverware occupies an oversized place in children's minds (well, children raised in countries where forks, knives and spoons are the dominant utensils), and I basically humanize silverware in a delightfully "unheimlich" and combined it with intimate poetry.
Being unemployed and being a stay-at-home mom was the perfect premise to start developing my own literary ecosystem. Since the poetic alter ego was speaking while performing domestic tasks, the domestic literature movement was the most honest definition for what I was already producing. Taking care of your child 24/7 does not mean that you're only surrounded my motherhood bliss, you need to manage your time to get to the core of completeness and you need to move forward to drop any kibosh on the upstarts and give some highlights on that poem on your head during the breast-feedings in the middle of the night."