CARTOGRAFÍA DEL TRÁNSITODecember 2024
Cartografía del Tránsito (Cartography of Transit) is an ongoing project that maps the inner landscape of migration through the bodies and faces of those closest to me — friends, companions, and fellow travelers whose identities exist in a state of permanent transition.
Like the study of shifting terrain, the project examines how the body and mind transform in the act of leaving. To migrate is to adapt — to absorb a new reality while carrying within you the weight of everything you left behind: ideas, memories, stones lodged in the deepest layers of who you are. It is a quiet and relentless process of becoming someone new without ever fully leaving behind who you were.
The result is a particular kind of belonging — or the absence of it. Migrants do not fully belong to the land that opens its doors to us, yet we no longer resonate completely with the place we came from. We exist in transit. Suspended between two worlds, neither fully claimed by either.
And yet, within that suspension, there is also celebration. The project honors the remarkable capacity of people to adapt, to find joy in new contexts, to build culture and community from scratch, and to discover unexpected versions of themselves in the process. Migration is not only loss — it is also transformation, creativity, and the quiet triumph of those who learn to thrive in the in-between.
In this journey, two things remain constant: the body as the only stable territory we carry with us, and the community we build with one another — bridges of solidarity constructed from shared vulnerability, collective memory, and the quiet courage it takes to remain open while remaining uprooted.
Cartografía en Tránsito is not a document of suffering. It is a portrait of resilience in its most human form — the resilience of those who have learned to make home not in a place, but in each other.