那灵魂,朴素如梅子的核,内里有宇宙

The Lttle-known World of the Afro-Mexican

“过去并非仅是一个描述性的历史概念,它首先是对现在的定义。”摄影师Mara说。而世上的人,有谁能幸免于遗忘?过去只是序幕,死亡闪耀如洪荒永恒中的星辰,历史成为经由过去传往未来的回声,墨西哥的命运成为这一切的缩影。今日墨西哥举国狂欢的亡灵节(Diadelos Muertos)是阿兹特克(Aztec)文明活人献祭仪式、古代印第安土著人以祭念逝者和西班牙天主教诸圣节杂的产物,人们从10月31日开始,连续在接下来两日的幼灵节和成灵节和家人齐聚一堂,载歌载舞,为“死亡”这一生命的新开始庆祝。与之类似,和绵延三干余年的传统、信仰一同在近五百年内被重构的,还有种族和血统。

The Cimarron and the Fandango speaks allegorically about the past of a black community and its members'journey through the fluctuations of colonial history,their integration into the Mexican territory,and their sense of identity within it.Yet that past isn't merely a descriptive historical concept:it is,above all,a definition of the present.A present,in the case of their Afro-Mexican descendants,that remains marginal,unstable,and immemorial.