In October we watched as floor after floor filled with patients. The increasingly overworked cleaners would tell us which floors had been taken over by positive cases. I continued to work in ciclos (paired shifts) of 12-hour days, 24-hour rest, 12-hour nights, 3 days-rest, another ciclo, four days-rest, rinse, repeat. This would be the worst month with at least one death most shifts, more than I’ve experienced in my career since. The experience has profoundly affected me and is something that I will always carry with me.
HUVR: octubre is an experimental book and the second instalment in the Virgen del Rocío series. The work is an exercise in processing these experiences through photographic meditation, text, and repetition, an exercise in therapeutical photography. At times I have no words so I make photographs.
All images 2020.
Limited edition artist’s book (2022) available upon request.
Perdona mi ausencia,
pero al ver tu foto hoy me ha dado por escribirte
por que siento que te he abandonado,
como a muchas personas desde el comienzo de todo esto.
Circunstancias siendo las que son, igual te querría decir,
Hola.
Te quiero,
que estoy pensando en ti,
y en los tuyos,
y en todos los de antes, pero que ahora,
no soy capaz, no tengo fuerzas más que para poner un píe delante del otro
Y aquí estamos, y que estoy pensando en ti
Y en todos que ya no veo
Siempre
No me queda otra que pensar
No se me quita.
