Protecting ourselves, seeking refuge, the shell as armor, as protection, as home.The shell that once sheltered its own life now collects a foreign element. A being that occupies an empty space previously inhabited.
But it also wears away, releasing its pearly material, losing it in the sand, which is made of the same material. Exposing ourselves makes us fragile, even more fragile, but it also allows us to rework ourselves, like an osmosis of the social.
My Habitadas pieces speak of this; of welcoming and seeking refuge, of protecting and adapting to the environment, of inhabiting a space that allows us to grow.Knowing how to let go in time of a shell that has safeguarded our fragility, but now constrains us, is to inhabit life.