The human self-domestication hypothesis builds on the finding that, compared to extant primates and extinct hominins, humans exhibit many of the distinctive morphological, behavioral, and cognitive features also observed in domesticated animals.
Domestic spaces can be seen as areas where nature is altered and regulated; physical manifestations of how we attempt to organize our sensory experiences. This is why, through speculative interventions of such fictional spaces/ objects I try to reimagine these preconfigured behaviors.
un engaño para nosotros mismos:
empezamos desde la nada.
¿Cómo convertirme en lo que nunca he sido?
Ellos se rascan la espalda contra la pared,
moviéndose de arriba a abajo.
¿Cuántas veces me he declarado arrogante,
en diálogos conmigo misma?
Nadie se salva:
ni el que puede,
ni el que tiene.
Quizás, el que tiene sí:
emerge heróico de la tierra.
En la oscuridad, usamos linternas:
somos luciérnagas.
somos luciérnagas.
Montículos de tierra sobre un charco:
la tarea de descolonizar se torno turbia,
nos convertimos en una colonia de abejas
medidos en arroz.
a scam for ourselves:
we begin from nothing.
How can I become what I have never been?
They scratch their back against the wall
moving up and down
How many times I have declared myself arrogant
in dialogues with myself?
No one is saved anymore,
neither those who can,
nor those who have,
perhaps, those who have can,
they emerge heroic from the dirt.
In the darkness, with flashlights,
we are fireflies,
Mounds of dirt, on a puddle.
The task of decolonizing became shady,
turned into a colony of bees
measured in rice
