Archive for Sunday October 25th, 2009

The city and the mask, the Caracas of Aaron Sosa.

Sunday October 25th, 2009

What does one think of when one thinks of Caracas?  When one is far away?  When one doesn’t know it?  When one is there, experiencing home and climate?  It is complex and useless to try to define this city, this geography trapped between mountains, this mixture of different bloods, languages, idiosyncracies, and cultures; this particular chaos that, like all chaos, also has its order.  Caracas, capital that pays homage to its geopolitical denomination and concentrates all types of capitals in a country that has been centralized for centuries:  the human, economic, and, thusly, existential.  Everything can be found here, everything coexists, everything joins and revolves.

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