Elogio a la roca.
Me pierdo en el caos de la mente, en sus disparatadas idas y venidas, no hay orden, no hay claridad… busco calma… Capturar la atención y dirigirla al paisaje, al horizonte. La roca, sólida y concisa, apoya mi mirada y me invita a dejar que mis párpados se apaguen para que mis ojos se pierdan en la oscuridad luminosa. Escucho el mar a lo lejos y descanso.
Contemplative actions. In dialogue with a rock.
“Elogio a la Roca” emerges from a simple and radical habit of returning, again and again, to the same place. It documents the intimacy of the moment when an isolated rock becomes an interlocutor. An interlocutor who becomes a mirror of the Self.
In the words of Erika G. Lee, “in front of the rock, across the days, I begin to capture a real glimpse of the meaning of the impermanence of every single state. Also a glimpse of the interconnection of everything and the concept of emptiness. The rock endures, grounded, seemingly solid. Yet it shifts with the light, with the rain, with the passing of the seasons, with the wind, and the sea. My gaze is transformed as well, but in my fantasy, I remain apparently the same. Through the inner rhythm of my inquiries and the noisy silence that moves through me, I start an intimate dialogue with the rock. The rock embodies both the mutable and the eternal, while I recognize in myself the same attributes”.
The routine of visiting the rock becomes an exercise in listening and presence. A visual and poetic meditation on time, identity, and the relationship between the human being and the universe, embodied in an isolated rock. It is also an invitation to inhabit the landscape not as a backdrop, but as an interlocutor. A call to be carried by what moves us. “In the constancy of this encounter, the rock becomes an archive of my own transformation. Together, we trace a map of impermanence, time and transformation. The gaze and emotion held within a moment. An ode to the sacred and the divine as they manifest in everything”.
“Elogio a la Roca” is an evolving archive of images and fragments of conversations by Erika G. Lee.