By Maru Vázquez
Visual codes are one of those elements sometimes more intangible than tangible that allow us to decode the world around us and understand the reason for the existence of things or the nature of them.
Since I arrived at this magical and wonderful place, I have received a lot of information at a sensory level that has led me to heal my being and to understand the purpose of a change of place and life.
When I arrived in San Miguel, I realized how broken I felt. Along with the pandemic, I recognized an opportunity, as many of us did globally, that there was a need to start over.
As I reached 60 turns around the sun, my realization of my life was that it was a renaissance. In changing cities from Mexico City to San Miguel, a silence that began to live here led me to live in an indescribable inner healing and inner peace I had not known.
The confinement we lived with the pandemic helped me to listen to my inner voice and renew my internal structure in an organic, slow, colloquial way to my authentic language and innermost feelings.
From that moment on, my sensitivity increased, my meditations became more intense, deeper, my work acquired another meaning—and a true cause that gave it the sense to serve, to support, and to grow.
My inner work has been more common and clearer to guide me on the way, and my intuition became the compass of all.
This exhibit, really, is my gratitude to the codes that have been shown to me about this place, the world, the mountains, the earth, the complexity of emotions, the encounter with light, the encounter with me, and the ability to observe carefully what happens inside, and most importantly around me.
They are more than me as they are the maps of the universe as gifted through me to my hands, maps now gifted to the people who resonate with and also of how I understand things today and the importance of each of them in full depth.
I am a soul who became a being with a designed personal code, to try to be and do better, to continue developing the gifts bestowed upon me, and to put them at the service of this place and the people who inhabit it.
I was drawn to San Miguel, and I was brought here not only to heal myself but also to find those codes that were previously indecipherable for me and find a way for them to heal others.
This first collection is my interpretation of what I have found here and of everything I thank San Miguel for.
