A journey of sorrow and determination. I left Argentina in the midst of the Military Dictatorship of 1976 to 1983. I am part of a generation that has suffered the violence of institutionalized repression. None of us have remained undamaged. We remember them through their absence more than through their presence.
Memory becomes both a resistance and a poetic methodology of existence.
This certainty prompted me to design and create an art group and collective directed toward political refugees and survivors of torture from Latin America living in the Bay Area. Funding came from the California Arts Council, The East Bay Community Foundation, Arts International, The Alameda Arts Council, The Berkeley Arts Commission, and Kala Institute. I did not create a setting for art therapy since I am both ignorant and unprepared to undertake such a task. My approach was to use art as a source of personal transformation and a vital tool to give testimony. I also hoped that a sense of community through the arts would be established.