“Hominy” is, at least in part, about the ways that both history and eating are processes of change that orbit the body. This interface of the past and food becomes constitutive of people and culture. It draws on my Mexican-American heritage, the hybridity of identity, and the ways these complexities have touch points across so many artifacts of daily life.
"Walk and sleep, pain and energy: the essential measures of life for the chronically ill. The disciple of recovery depends on what one doesn’t do, as much as what one does, and that’s what makes the imagination vital. Words and images can move more rapidly than anyone can walk or run."
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"Take, for example, the 'verdura' rhyming with 'segura' in the Camões, which in the translations I’ve already written appears as verdure, greenery, and lushness depending on what the variation in question most needs. Hatherly does this herself throughout when she uses a range of synonyms, and interestingly also thought of her reinterpretation of traditional texts as an act of translation that has the effect of altering the original."
