Manos de Zona
La Zona. Only one, that now counts, for me (for now). The one in Santo Domingo. Where Christopher Columbus landed.
Manos de Zona is a chapter of {Zona | Still}. It is itself distributed on multiple platforms, in different spaces, through different modalities: Exhibitions, Publications, Posts, Social Media Threads, even Presentations and Conversations.
Totally fascinated by it for the longest time (25 years to be exact, at the time of this writing). It energy, its craze, its symbolic power, its pull, its under and overgrounds… The project: has to do with both its standing, its admittedly clichéd but kind of true, corssroads of the world identity, and its sheer cool and funkiness. Lots of photographing, and then I realized that one of my long-standing obsessions, just doing hand-capts, would be ideal here: not just to do the various things people do with their hands, but to do the photo portrait of la zona through these hand-capts. Manos de zona: la zona through the hands… A chapter–epic in its own right–of {Zona | Still}
A lot more here–on tumblr, one of the early threads, which I kept!
https://www.tumblr.com/manosdezona