Whispers of Care

Abstract

Latticed beams to support flowers, or umbrellas, groupings of bars, very dense, wooded, to make a changing veil levitate in the glow of their backsides. The game is subtle, because there is no coarseness in the distortion of the scalar. Everything is restrained, because there is no need for extra-large size to show greatness. They are whispers. Marx was the one who related the infra to the supra, in this matter of structures. In him they were economic, and in Izaskun Chinchilla, too. The subversion comes from the same correlation: how goods are produced imposes their legal, political and ecological framework. The images of architectural projects that short-circuit the passage between articles - what in Astrágalo we call a Visual Article - possess the concreteness of the form that does not con-form: the matter and the projectual preciousness, which is the infra, in order to subvert the laws that have configured the supra, up to the moment. The juridical, in the jurisprudence that gives the liberated gaze of a child, is invoked not with a revolutionary vocation, but as a trigger for change. The political happens when a monument resolves it by prospective, that is to say, tied to a past that imagines many futures, and not by the con-memorable. And is it not the ecological that follows? The task of glimpsing what care is, is the task that Chinchilla sets out and arrogates to architecture.