Una estrella en una ola de mar (A star in a sea wave)

I propose to tell a story of the old town of La Guaira through visual experimentation, port documents, family archives, objects found in ruins, a typography, and in the houses of its own inhabitants. This place is an important part of my family history

In this project I propose to tell a story of the historic center of La Guaira through visual experimentation and walks through its streets, looking for the generation of graphic material, through port documents, family archives and objects found in its various buildings in ruins, a typography that works since the nineteenth century and in the houses of its own inhabitants, which allowed me to read this old town that I knew during my childhood, and that is an important part of my personal and family history.

La Guaira is the closest coast to the city of Caracas (Venezuela), and one of the oldest and most important ports in the country (especially during the eighteenth century), as a center of commercial operations of goods and fruits, such as cocoa. However, the years have passed and this territory seems to be a kind of paradise or tourist oasis that sometimes seems to have no history, a place of fragmented stories, and at the same time, a kind of dormitory city because of its airport.

Among the streets of the historic center of La Guaira I have been reflecting on notions such as memory, the present, identity, the political uses of historic sites and of history itself; the great lack of drinking water, the pain and traces of tragedies and river floods (one of the most serious occurred in 1999), and on the other hand, the bluest skies, salsa music and the smiles of the thriving people who inhabit the lands of this old town, where all the streets reach the sea.