A reporter once asked Mexican film director, Guillermo del Toro, “how he balances the darkness and terror in his often monster-filled films with the joyful and loving person that he is”. “I’m Mexican”, he replied simply, “No one loves life more than we do, in a way, because we are so conscious about death. When you eliminate one of the two sides from the equation, it’s a pamphlet. When you take into account the dark to tell the light, it’s reality.” I suspect that having been six months exactly in front of a closed Gray’s School of Art, looking at it from the window, while trying to find beauty in grief and ways to communicate and connect while isolating has been a test to my «Mexicanity».
You can view where I see some of the stories I have shared with you here moving forward in the future:
Maxim Zaragoza 