Saturday enjoying nature and art

I live in a big city, and usually I have very hectic days. I am my own boss, and I have to work hard to be a productive person. For that reason I really need some moments to relax, some moments to disconnect from my work responsibilities and my family responsibilities. My favorite moments to relax are my moments enjoying nature.

This saturday I went with my friend María Luisa to Hacienda La Trinidad Park, and old colonial plantation of coffee and sugar that was transformed since 2010 to a cultural park, a place where you can enjoy nature, nice gardens with different tree species, flowers, birds singing, but also you can enjoy art exhibitions, gastronomy, a book shop, a photography school. My friend María Luisa didn’t know the park and she asked me to go there and I said her: －Of course, good idea, It’s a good place to relax and I need to relax.

Good friends are a wonderful treasure. My friend and me spent together a really good time in the park. I showed her all spaces you can enjoy in Hacienda La Trinidad, gardens, chocolate store, art exhibitions and also I was able to talk freely with her about recent events that have me worried, the kind of topics you only talk about with good friends.

We could visit art exhibition "The vertebrae of the sky". by Pedro Terán, an important contemporary venezuelan artist, in the main exhibition hall of the park. Terán was living several years in Italy but now he is living in Venezuela again. He is a conceptual artist and through his artistic work is showing several problems we are living today. One of those problems is migration, since ten years ago millions of venezuelan people leaved our country looking for a better oportunities. Terán himself did it. On one of the walls of the exhibition he wrote 6,000,000 absences, because all those people who have left the country, indeed, left their homes, their families, their friends.

Similarly, as we enter the exhibition we can see an empty chair hanging on the wall that reads: "The body, present or absent, always the body". The body, her own body has been an important reference in her artistic work.

Also in the exhibition we can see a reflection on his own identity. For example, in one of his works, entitled "Narcissus", we can see a photograph in which the artist appears in front of a mirror. Migrants often wonder about their own identity, living in a place where they do not belong.

My friend María Luisa and I had a nice Saturday enjoying nature and art. Thank you for reading, I hope you enjoyed it.