Karen Cordero

Inhabiting my Interior

2020

This collage, titled Inhabiting My Interior, seeks to evoke the multi-layered sense of space and time, as well as the corporeal imprint, of two dreams that I shared with the Red Book workshop. In one, I went through a door at the back of a bookshop that opened onto an apartment where I experienced a sense of estrangement. I had a meeting there with some colleagues and then—before we left—was caught taking some clothing that didn’t belong to me. In another, I wandered with a colleague in a medieval European town during a feminist congress, encountering a man selling marigold flowers, associated with the Day of the Dead in Mexico, that formed a seemingly infinite field. The synthesis of these recollections—in poetic rather than literal form—is combined with references to my domestic space, which became the site during the pandemic of the reflexive and creative process in which we shared images and narrations of our dreams and processed them through yoga and drawing.