Francesca Zak: Statement
An excerpt taken from Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s writing Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro ‘At first la llamada (the call) is just an intangible longing, a vague yearning for form. Soon it becomes a beat pulsing subliminally. Symbolically, the calls source is the dark mother, la Llorona, the ghost of the woman wailing for the loss of her children whom she murdered, in crazed anger against a lovers betrayal.
In her Horse aspect, la Llorona will carry you for beginning of story to finish line.’
In my dreams I have met with a figure taking the shape of a faun, with him too acting as a guide or chariot. He too takes is moulded into the form of a half man half creature as Glorias Llorona, acting as neither good nor bad but as a guiding Shepard who can step between one slippery realm and the next, lead by a hooved foot and horned head followed by human gaze and human torso, acting as a figure that can easily hide between spaces where I wouldn’t, seeing me in and out of my first and last moments with a dream.
Given to me by the faun is a necklace formed by Portunus and Cardea, god of the key and the door, and goddess of the hinge. With the necklace acting as a key in itself, a necklace with charms to be worn as preservation and navigation. The fauns body becomes a form representative of the process of individuation, seemingly meeting in that slippery in-between place, half goat half man acting as a guide between two worlds.
Group Exhibition
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May 25-June 18, 2022