potaje de carne!!!! Merida,  GRATIS!!!


Travelling now between Merida, Mexico city and Guadalajara, makes me appreciate the time inside the plane, I have been able to articulate my time with the plane, I value the clouds, entering and exiting clouds, observing the world in a perspective I have never imagine. I love o work in the plane and look out the window,

                                                                        block of cloud

                                                         cloud duck on the sea

                                                                        popocatepetl
and work again, just like in the metro in Tokyo which I found my time to read and think and learn Japanese, this moment up in the sky is absolutely fantastic. At the end I love to take pictures of people in the plane, it’s the face of them trying to get out the plane. 

Merida is lovely, but too fucking hot, just like Tokyo on summer .

Merida, the white city, the place to be if you want to melt, just like Japan, this weather is so humid; you could make a forest out of concrete floor. It is inevitable, but it is as well intensive and cool, I’m making the opera and have found some interesting things in Merida, I think Merida is wonderful to make friends.

As I was flying toward Merida I saw he magnificent Popocatepetl, the biggest volcano in Mexican about to make eruption, so impressive. It is a cleaning up of the inside of the earth, just as we should do it sometimes.

Mexico City, I´m inside your mouth, becoming wiser every time I see one of your creatures talk to me and offers me a little bit of chilangoles!! Would I really enjoy my stay in Mexico City if my closest friends weren’t here living? , well all I know is that I missed two  McCartney’s concert in Mexico city, and I´m kind of sad about it  but instead I spent time with this couple of great people and  enjoyed my new little friend. The best of Mexico and Switzerland in this 50 cm guy!!

Tomorrow I go to Merida to go on with the Samson and Delilah opera .

(A Long japanese pause)

Being inside a work limbo, and making a pause in my adventure in Japan, I have returned to my motherland,  For some reason, every time I travel around the world I have an invitation of my opera director Cesar Piña to make an Opera in Mexico,  well even if I’m tempted in ´saying NO, I can´t reject those invitations, because, He has been the one who submerged me in opera , I have worked with different people as well, but, working with Piña is a fascinating experience.

flor de calabaza and beans soup 

merida $ 65 pesos 

 

I talked to Severine about going for two months to Mexico and with some regrets because we are not meeting for two months which is a pity if she is my love one, But in a sense is good because our relation has been always with little pauses not seeing each other and that is for me a great thing in a couple, because we have our whole life ahead and little breaks reinforce our love for one another.

 my first chocotorro after 3 years

 

Mexico, being here has been somewhat mind refreshing,   MEXICO CITY-MERIDA-MEXICO CITY-GUADALAJARA-MERIDA-MEXICO CITY- ESTADO DE MEXICO. This has been my itinerary for the past three weeks, and I have been somewhat thinking about my future as a professional and as husband, friend and further rolls I´ll acquire. 

 theatre peon contreras merida

I have been re entering the virtue of imagination. With this 4 or 5 places I’ve been, I ve been living in hotels for the past three weeks, becoming an isolated man, in some ways, but  I have been re thinking about Mexico and Japan, how the relations and non relations  of this strange countries encounter.


theatre armando manzanero  merida

The sakura factor.

gathering for hanami, the sakura is one of the most cherished flowers in the world, specially because it dies so quickly, just two weeks of life, and that’s enough to put a whole country in standstill just to get lunch and dinner under this tree, This tree is the factor of so many metaphors, and it is an example of how nature can really influence humans, in a great way, sentimental, emotional. It is the essence of spring and the perfect timing for change of weather. The pink factor is in this case not kitsch when you are enjoying contemplating the flowers, it is actually a  3d effect, when you see the whole layers of sakura, I wish we could have something like this in Mexico that could make us change our mind and stop applauding mediocrity.

Time:  387 days, East Island called the rising sun, in the belly of the dragon, in the belly where the dragon gets so often intoxicated. I am in one of the floating remains of the dragon’s food, floating on his belly acids. 

365 degrees view, most diagonal lines, curved lines, cables, the dragons belly’s veins, black, closing around me, like a curtain. And far away, at the other side of the belly I see the stomach belly button; some say it’s the rectus, the one called Fujiyamaguchi. The the mighty connector. The organ that keeps the dragon healthy and make look all his microplasms up, all of his bacteria’s up, all of the dragon’s inhabitants up.

Therefore, I look up, watching the invisible connection, watching the energy that comes and goes from the dragon’s bellybutton, or rectus.

And I look up, many times because there’s no other way to look.  The sight is cubic, everywhere you look, and if you look with more attention you look a sense of guiltiness that invades the space where each one of them are looking, waiting, and thinking concerning feeling guilty.  As I look around and interact with other living beings inside the dragons belly I see the confrontation between each other with their presence, their looks, and their body language. Confrontation is MUTE, no physical reaction,
When I think I’m a germ in a foreign belly, life achieves he goal of making feel bad to then give you the opportunity to fell a lot better, so the fujiyamaguchi is there for a reason.

miso ramen, shinjuku station inner part, 500 yen  include rice

Long again for the blog o be filled, Many things have passed, many feelings I have been trough and now I’m standing up again, after a little tipsy turby , I literary was LOST IN TOKYO, it seems it’s a real thing , not just a movie. So my mind got lost, especially in summer, I couldn’t think, I couldn’t make anything right, I was kind of lost, but not in a bad sense, on the contrary, I was experimenting new things and new feelings, an my inner chef was slowly getting out, my other curiosities where getting out and I realized , I wanted to explore other things, not just set design, but other different ideas and concepts about my inner experience, Tokyo really make you introspective, because, there’s no other way of understanding this culture. And, why do we get lost??   To find ourselves!!!!

Sunday November 6,  after a show of  the prince of pagodas , which is really interesting, I have spent 9 months in Japan now, ) months , that’s  not much for Japan, I ´ve  seen in NNT so far about 14 productions and seen many things.

I’m privileged enough to make a production in the New National theatre, narita airport, which is from Ramiro Torres de Miguel, and last time I wanted to do something with that theatre play it didn’t worded out as I expected.

I think that this time it will have a twist, because I have learned a lot and I think    the collaboration with the Japanese will be unprecedented , This is the first time some student in NNT want to make a project, It is also the first time that a Latin American will be in an NNT show, which is important, .

So far this is my priority let’s see what happens.