La de buscar el equilibrio de las cosas (The one to search for the equilibrium of things) emerges as an experimental exercise of creative writing starting with a found text from an old encyclopedia about plants.

The process of photocopying the pages of the book produced blurry spaces and shadows on the text, so I used them as a starting line to cut and form phrases and small sentences and paragraphs. I added words to give sense and to make the words flow through the text as I read it, incorporating at the same time the strategy of blackout poetry.

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Text:

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“The plant has no idea of what it’s doing.

And so, the plant looks like withered.

The sun rays are too intense, the wind is strong, it gives a little punch to the plant.

When the plant is hit, it can stay withered, fallen. But it acts this way without knowing what it’s doing.

No flower has any idea of what it is doing.

How can someone see the pain coming and decide not to wither, but to face the pain staying strong?

How can anybody expect it to act that way?

How can someone elude the danger?”