"When I'm Dead They Will Reconstitute My Love for You, Starting with the Jaw."

Cross stitched embroidery on aluminum frame
16.5 x 34 cms
2023

by Pilar Córdoba Longar

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In ancient Egypt, the scarab was sacred because it embodied becoming. Egyptians watched the dung beetle rolling its sphere across the ground and imagined a miniature analogue of the sun's daily journey across the sky. 

The thing of the sun is to be reborn. Scarab speaks of the persistence of form through death.

And Pilar's car, flipped upside down, entered into an intricate transition. It edged the order which leads to the divine. Patiently, through twists and turns. And through its rigour.

Hear the title: "to reconstitute"; an archaeological, almost a forensic notion. And come closer. Embroidery – that quiet labor of becoming.

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