“Nostalgia embraces each day, from images to smells that make us remember what we left behind, we have visions of the past, pain for the present and expectant happiness for what is to come.

The new houses that we build serve as a refuge and there we feel peace, also

detachment, confusion, fragmentation, and instability, but we draw courage from within and continue, accepting the new beginning with gratitude.

With a part of us in one place and a part of us in another, we gather around a table to remember and make promises, to cry and laugh, to open windows to a generous blank page, with joy and hope.”

Gisela Romero  from her exhibition

Constant Goodbye

Stacking memories . I navigate my return to a city I called home for over 23 years, I am feeling all this and more. Here to see and be around my daughter, my life is no longer here. Only she is and she is so important to me. She has her own life and I try as best I can with as much grace and patience to be a part of that again. All the while being a scared little girl . Who is afraid of being rejected, abandoned, hurt, held too tight to a standard.