I haven’t written for a long time.
I have felt the need to do this for a long time.
But I’ve been running away from that need.
I don’t know if it’s because of fear, I don’t know if it’s because of laziness or because of apprehension about not wanting to go too deep.
Also perhaps a bit of judgment, believing that I have nothing important enough to be written, much less published.
The point is that I keep putting it off, endlessly, and that only means that every time I try, it costs me much more than the previous time, and the result is even worse.
Which brings me to the vicious circle in which I become more and more demotivated. A circle in which so many of us find ourselves.
Nothing new.
So here I am, after many years, having a blog again. Yes, when I was a teenager I had a blog, it was called “narrando instantes” and although it didn’t become anything remarkable, it was my personal little corner of the internet.
But this time, I am approaching it differently. From the perspective of a Mariana who is many years older, emigrates and battles later. With a Mariana who may not be older, but much better connected to her vulnerability, and with an improved capacity for expression.
In this space there will not only be texts, obviously, as a photographer, I also plan to fill you with photographs; complete sessions without any kind of censorship (I’m quite tired of the subject already), without pretensions, simply me, offering you the best I have to give: My artistic work.
Hoping that maybe this will make you feel something you’re not used to, make you question something you may not have considered, or you might just prefer to admire it aesthetically, either way, you’re welcome.
Whatever the reason you are here right now reading this, I hope you can give yourself the opportunity to get to know me beyond my photographs.
And I hope to give myself a space where I can return, to find myself. A space where I can be vulnerable. A space that is mine and at the same time belongs to all those who wish to be part of it.
A space for rediscoveries.
