Relicario de un viajero

(2021-2022)

This is a project to honor the Santolo Franco family in the complex migratory process, the separation of the family, and the last visual record until they meet again.

The project is divided into five chapters: Unconditional Love, Growing in Consciousness, The Tissue that Unites, Past Present, and The Traveler.

Unconditional Love

A mother's love is the refuge from a chaotic world, the sacred land where the traveler hopes to return someday. It is the love that forgives, waits patiently in silence, and prays that all goes well for those who are leaving.

Between prayers and faith, she impregnates the traveler with her good wishes and trusts in God that everything will work out for her children.

Growing in consciousness:

A father's love is the strength of the traveler, it is the word of encouragement that invites to always hold the head high as you navigate uncertainty.

It is the wise love that seeks to understand the process of departure and invites us to heal through crying and dancing. The premise seeks to break all patterns, seeking the true self at all costs.

It sees the traveler as a warrior facing his fears.

The fabric that unites:

The universe of each family is woven by people through time and their decisions. Our blood is mixed between indigenous and European, where language is tangled and new words that did not exist before are pronounced.

Santolo grandparents:

Teresa, comes from a humble village: San José de Areocuar, in the east of the country, Venezuela. Descendant of the Cumagotos Indians, she is an example of strength and leaves her land to live in the capital, Caracas, for a better future.

Aniello was born and raised in Vallo Della Lucania, Salermo. He bravely leaves a war-bleeding Europe and looks for a new land to live in, he is a traveler too.

               

Today Teresa claims that Aniello appears to her in dreams to tell her that he is well.

Past Present

Memories envelop people and resonate in the ears of new family members. Like old legends, they speak of those who are no longer with us. They are the present past, they inhabit our homes and our minds.

Fredewinda and Enrique are reminders that in the end, people transcend through family and their actions. Both moved from their hometown Maracaibo to the capital to offer their offspring a better future.

Their daughters today live surrounded by their parents' belongings, those objects observe their lives and are part of them. They are spectators of the cycle of life.

It is the inheritance of the flesh, the legacy of the source. The present is its path and is part of the family generational cycle.

History is made up of cycles, where all humans are participants. Everyone travels, everyone suffers, everyone has to let go of something they love, grow and navigate through uncertainty.

Each person has their own reliquary, their own familiar universe and is the inheritance of lives that no longer exist.