JULY 2010
"To touch or not to touch"
In a round wooden base that represents the world as we know today, the cones that are more that resemble each other more and seem to not have any notorious different between themself, they are grouped around a "leader" that is the perfection and the closest thing to what we concibe as "ideal" represented in a cone without failure or textures. Out of this circle of cones apparently equals there are dispersed and isolated the cones with notorious differences both from the others as between them. This cones without enamel represents the false minorities: the homosexuals, the blacks, the Jews, the transgender, the immigrant, the people with disabilities, mentally ill, the differents.
Around the group that represents the majority it is written the mott: "Look but don't touch.". Around the leader there is written a little smaller: "Admire it but don't think it." Around the different cones is written sligthly "You judge them but you don't know them." The main title of the work: "To touch or not to touch" – in alusion to the famous "To be or not to be" – encourages the viewer to choose between just look superfluous a world divided between the equals and the differents, or interact and discover that when you lift up the cones that seems equals there are notorious differences in their interior (like texture and enamel), and the cones that seems differents have in their interior the same that excludes from being like the others: the superfluous simplicity so overrated and enameled. With this I not only try to point that we prejudice those who seems differents, we also prejudice those that are considered the "normal/equals", and if maybe we y que if we could overcome this fear of getting to know another, and we off-at least one minute of ourselves, we could discover that we are all equally different, and not so different as to stop being the same...
