GRECIA MAYOR

Feelings like nostalgia, homesickness, and fond memories are part of this peculiar and new perception of leaving a fragment of myself 3564 miles away from me. Peru, my home country, it’s the main reason for these mix of feelings that are transferred into my art practice. For this project, I seek to create three custom spaces that connect together sequentially in order to give to the audience a sense of being in the three regions of Peru: The Coast, The Mountains, and The Rainforest. Insights Sensations Miles Away will engage the public by allowing them to experience a different culture through sensorial effect.

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The first space would be representing the coast of Peru. My audience will feel a fresh temperature in a similar way of being next to the ocean. Not too hot, not too cold. It would simulate the temperature between September and 

November. The used of fans and heaters would reproduce this fresh climate on the space.

Additionally, the walls have a linear graphic in blue simulating the horizon of the ocean. Since these are fragments of my memories, I want to show it by having these strips or walls rotating and reproducing a visual effect of the place I was born and raised. In order to reinforce the idea of being in the Peruvian coast, I will add sound effects from the ocean, sea animals and its main language: Spanish. 

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The second space would be representing the mountains of Peru. In this space my audience will have the feeling of being under a low temperature. Since the Peruvian mountains are located in a high altitude area, the climate is always cold and sunny but the cold air is predominant. Also, this the only region that snows, more likely during the months of November, December and January. However, sometimes snows during the months of June and July. The cold feeling of this region would be produced by the used of fans.

Additionally, the walls have a graphic of snow coming down in white. Similar as the previous space, the mountains are part of my memories and I want to show them with the rotating strips or walls that will reproduce a visual effect of the mountains.

For this space, the sound is crucial. I might expose my audience to hear a new language called Quechua, which is most used by native people from the mountains in their daylily life. Also, I would incorporate some background sounds that are specific from that region, such as the sound of miners working in the caves and wild native animals of the region.

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The last space epitomizes the rainforests of Peru. This area will have a higher temperature than the others. Since this is a tropical place with sun all year, my audience will sweat, will feel thirsty and will have the desire to remove pieces of clothing to get back to conformability. The heaters will be the ones in charge to reproduce this effect. Additionally, the walls will have green spots everywhere that would simulate, in a minimalistic way, the extensive diversity of flora that this region has. The rotating wall or strips will help to reproduce a visual effect about my memories of the Peruvian jungle.

The sound of this space will be about the diversity of animals and native people talking their “Asháninkas” dialect.