Text and three still photos.

An essay about a search for a place called home which along reflects thoughts on the artistic practise within.

This essay ponders on questions about belonging, identity, the search for a place called home and to live with a duality inside. It takes start in my adoption to Sweden in 1979 and follows the years to come where a strong urge to go back to Lima, Peru where it all began, arise. Through examples of two films (Paris, Texas and The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - Every man for himself and God against all) I express how the power of the protagonists affected me and lead me to make art out of a strong feeling. I write about a performance act called “Adopted Branch” (Östermalmstorg) where I, dressed in all black leather clothes carry a naked branch across a square in central Stockholm. Along the way I also argue how the waiter figure in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness has resemblance to my own life as I have worked as a waiter for over twenty years. That example has to do with the Peruvian/Swedish contradictions I carry inside. I’am what I look like I am but I’m also not what I look like.