Hajichi and Ancestry

Where is the identity of the woman descended from Okinawa when she perceives gestures and thoughts in the unconscious that do not fit with the country she is in? But perhaps they are of customs passed from mother to daughter for a long time that connects this line between ancestors of the Okinawan people and the present in Brazil. Where does the discovery of its beauty go when it is not identified in the place it lives, nor in the books it reads?

What I find in the history of my people lives through my mother. Thus, the first excavation is about her. The first generation of our family to live this dichotomy of being Brazilian but with a face, body and culture from Okinawa.

That is why this painting is made on jeans with the bleaching technique, using bleach instead of paint so that this drawing of Hajichi’s hands appears as fragments, as remnants, at the same time that erases the blue color of the denim.

It was cut to pieces in an unconscious gesture, then it was turned into demountable clothes.