Colabore para no desaparecer. Sebastian Teysera, La Vela Puerca.
Music is a crucial element of every culture; it shapes and transmits a way of living. Making it easier as a community to understand each other.
Growing up I’d listen to music from all generations and many parts of the world. From tangos written on the shores of the River Plate, my grandma grew up listening to European rock and roll my parents listened to in their revolutionary years, along with the local music my generation grew up with.
I was born and raised in Uruguay; a small country but with a big culture.
At home, music always plays in the background of family events. Even at the most appreciated time of the day; dinner time. After a long day of work and school, the family gathers around the table where for a moment the world pauses allowing us to only focus on each other.
I moved to the US in 2017 and since, I’ve noticed two big differences between our cultures. For me, the two most important ones; are folk music and family gatherings.
Without these aspects of culture, the tables in many homes wring in pain. Splitting families and causing problems in their own culture. The concept of the family slowly vanishes, leaving newer generations seeking approval and love in inhuman ways. Turning them into selfish beings.
So selfish that the “land of the free” is patrolled by bald eagles who prey on others' happiness and humanity.
Human interaction disappears as everyone takes communication too personally.
A culture that turns the amazing simple activity of sharing pizza and beers into a self-centered act.
Self-approval is sought through social media and fake relationships. Forming them into deformed creatures.
Buying material things becomes temporary therapy.
Focusing to find happiness by themselves becomes a disease that stitches arms together leading many of them into a dark abyss of loneliness.
The foundation of American culture falls apart.
Detroit, Michigan, United States, 2022
Screenprinting, colored pencils, plasticine, markers, watercolors, photoshop, printed on photographic paper glued on wood.
