"Perhaps esperanza waiting or sunset" / Rometti Costales

It was 1979 when anthropologist Walter F. Morris Jr. published A catalog of textiles and folkart of Chiapas, an extensive inventory of three fabric collections, patterns and other regional objects. In this self-edited volume black&white, almost abstract images, which reduce the cataloged artifacts to a series of contrasting planes, appear along with greatly detailed descriptive texts.

Few Augusts ago, on a cloudy day, a copy of the book fell into the hands of Rometti Costales, who could not keep from intervening in some way.Through dissembling, quartering,and reordering the content, they edit images and modify descriptions, overshadowing the language and bringing it closer to veiled photographs.

The result is the facsimile Blue has run*, a weird compendium of image and word, which converts into a ready to act contraption .Rumpite libros ne corda vestra rumpantur (Break the books before they break your hearts ) chants an alchemical dictum.

From this facsimile…