Photo by Cesar Rodriguez
Join us on Wednesday, October 19th at 6:00 PM CDT for the Venezuelan Street Photography Exhibit La Mejor Venezuela & Reception hosted by Loyola Professor Ty Lawson’s Latinx Media Representation class.
This exhibit features the photography of Cesar Rodriguez.
There will be live music from the Loyola University New Orleans Jazz Ensemble. We hope you can join us!
This event will take place in the third-floor Performance Center at the New Orleans Jazz Museum, 400 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70116.
The artistic statement Cesar Rodriguez wrote the night he left Venezuela:
I love you even though loving you hurts
I love you because you remind me of my grandfather
I love you because in you I saw the lights of Rodríguez
But being honest sometimes one falls in love
And he falls in love alone, without being reciprocated
Falls in love in verse to receive prose
But as my uncle used to say: "Cuando el amor llega así de esa manera Uno no se da ni cuenta."
What a hopeful way to say
That love is blind, ungrateful but tasty in the end
And in my heart I only have you
The only woman loved
The first experiences
Yes, I still remember the first time I visited you
I was just a child, and so alone
I wanted to be honest doing the impossible
That's what I was trying to live for, isn’t it?
It hurts to me how you fell in love with so many loves
Infidels and love dogs
And although most hypocrites, I don't understand how
You never noticed me, but it's not me who this poem without swim is about
This is about you
The one I have seen cry so many times
From the peninsula to the capital.
About you, the girl with the starry smile
Always cute, always broken
Of course about you my love, love of my loves
Will I ever meet you again?
I remember your colors
But not your heart anymore
The night has turned cold
Just like you to sign divorces
Your hands wrinkle
And the memories become vague
Were you born to be this ungrateful?
Or was it the pain that made you like this?
I never wanted to ask you because but the hell I did