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[[File:DSC05528 a.jpg|thumb|800x800px|<small>“Y de mortales engaños, Y de sublimes dolores” exhibition “The Plant Plant” Winterwerkschau Bauhaus University Weimar. 2025.</small>]]

====== <small>''Yo sé de de nombres extraños''</small>======

======<small>''De las plantas y las flores,''</small> ======

======<small>''Y de mortales engaños''</small>======

======<small>''Y de sublimes dolores.''</small>======

<small>''…''</small>

<small>( José Julián Martí Pérez (Havana, 1853 - Dos Ríos, 1895) was a Cuban politician, diplomat, poet, essayist, journalist and philosopher, founder of the Cuban Revolutionary Party and organizer of the Cuban War of Independence, during which he died in combat. He is considered the initiator of literary modernism in Latin America. He is considered the national hero of the Republic of Cuba, and his ideals of independence and anti-colonialism have been used by the Cuban regime to politically indoctrinate the Cuban people. But these same ideals of nationalism and independence also serve as a guide and inspiration to the opposition that desires a Cuba without repression, a just country and a republic “with everyone and for the good of everyone”).</small>

 

'''The lemon tree is a resilient plant that bears fruit even when it is dying.'''  

 

In this project, the lemon tree is a symbol of the members and generations of my Cuban family, it is an inheritance of sentimental and moral values in it.

This piece is inspired by my grandfather, Justo Manuel González. The last words he wrote, when he was already losing his faculties, were an autobiography recounting the enormous work he did, mostly linked to the Cuban revolutionary process and its social and economic tasks. Justo, who was a “national vanguard” of the Cuban Revolution, worked with honesty, sacrifice, and faith, to create a good society for his family, his community, and his country. He died in 2021 in Cuba, after several months of being a victim of medical abandonment and negligence since his country became corrupted and neglectful of its people.  

 

The death of the old lemon tree also speaks about the Cuban context in general, its history, and its current sociopolitical crisis that generates physical and sentimental ruptures of its most vulnerable families. It has affected especially the humble elderly people who were the working generations who created and supported the revolutionary Cuban process that became corrupted. Now, those persons are the most affected by the crisis, being abandoned by the social system to which they gave their faith and the effort of their lives. The piece is a tribute to them.

The archive also shows how my parents in Cuba, after the death of the old lemon tree planted a new lemon tree in their yard, and also show how I, a few years after escaping from Cuba, decided to start planting new lemon trees, as a way of approach to my family and roots despite distance and exile.

I also set up a house-shaped terrarium with the new lemon tree plants.

When the spectator approaches 60 cm of the branches, the servo motor starts to turn from 0 to 18 degrees, making the branches, attached to it, start to move. If the spectator approaches at a closer distance (40 cm), the servo motor turns from 0 to 58 degrees, making the branches move a little bit more.   

 

 

2nd System